Avenue V, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Avenue V in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue V in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and tree cover (90). Traffic safety (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue V. Since 2021, reported crashes on Avenue V have injured 127 people, and traffic safety ranks 26 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 226 of them. The whole 311 file on Avenue V holds 880 reports, and illegal parking is 26% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (130 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (86). In all, 83 distinct 311 categories are represented on Avenue V. About 40 reports per 100 homes sit on Avenue V, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 45 Class C violations on Avenue V, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Avenue V is doors, at 35 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (30 violations) and pests (27). PLUTO counts 282 residential buildings and 2,219 homes on Avenue V, with 55 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.9 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 71 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 30. A 30 on infrastructure places Avenue V in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 59 and parking at 50. Against every street in the city, Avenue V ranks 69 on food nearby and 34 on transit. Avenue V ranks 90 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where Avenue V ranks best against busy avenues, at 96.
The housing file puts 6% of the 2,219 homes on Avenue V in rent stabilization, 130 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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