Avenue Y, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Avenue Y in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue Y in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (81) and tree cover (89). Traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Avenue Y. Reported crashes here have injured 122 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 14 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Avenue Y, with 426 reports. Across every category, 697 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 61% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (107 reports) and residential noise (78). The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. About 56 reports per 100 homes sit on Avenue Y, counting every category.
The HPD file on Avenue Y carries 27 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Avenue Y, 51 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (44 violations) and doors (25). 290 residential buildings on Avenue Y hold the 1,245 homes on file, 69 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Avenue Y holds about 4.3 homes.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 18. An 18 on infrastructure places Avenue Y in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 24 on the same scale, with parking at 24. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 38, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Avenue Y, at 89. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Avenue Y is scored inside.
Quietness is where Avenue Y ranks best against busy avenues, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 1,245 homes on file, 186 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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