Avenue Y, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Avenue Y in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 45, 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 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (81) and tree cover (89); traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Avenue Y. 122 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 14 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 32 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 426 reports. Tree cover ranks 89, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 53 against every street in the city. Only about 15% of the 1,245 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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