Avenue X, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Avenue X in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 45, 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 X in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (77) and tree cover (86). Parking (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Avenue X name illegal parking than any other category, 505 of them, and parking ranks 17 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Avenue X holds 1,285 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 116 reports, and residential noise with 70. Reports on Avenue X span 91 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue X carries roughly 113 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Avenue X carries 67 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Avenue X, 46 violations of it. Pests follows at 40 violations, then doors at 32. The housing file lists 323 residential buildings on Avenue X holding 1,140 homes, with 14 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.5 homes each.
NYPD records 134 people injured in crashes on Avenue X since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Avenue X ranks 62 on housing and 21 on cleanliness. Avenue X sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 52 and traffic safety at 24. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 38. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Avenue X, at 86. Avenue X is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Avenue X ranks best against busy avenues, at 77.
The housing file puts 32% of the 1,140 homes on Avenue X in rent stabilization, 371 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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