Avenue W, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Avenue W in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 16, 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 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (47) and tree cover (91). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Avenue W, with 270 reports. Across every category, 1,076 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (197 reports) and residential noise (132). In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on Avenue W. The 311 file works out to about 135 reports for every 100 homes on Avenue W.
Inspectors have written 39 Class C violations on Avenue W, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Avenue W is pests, at 62 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 24 more, and structure for 20. PLUTO counts 391 residential buildings and 796 homes on Avenue W, with 36 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 117 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 26 among busy avenues and parking ranks 3. A 3 on parking places Avenue W in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 13 and traffic safety at 6 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Avenue W is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue W is housing, at 47.
The housing file puts 1% of the 796 homes on Avenue W in rent stabilization, 9 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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Avenue W runs through Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend & Homecrest and Marine Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).