Avenue W, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Avenue W in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.

Calm 14, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Avenue W in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (40) and tree cover (91); parking (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Avenue W, with 270 reports, and parking ranks 3 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 43 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 117 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, housing ranks 40 among busy avenues. Only about 1% of the 796 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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