Avenue Z, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Avenue Z in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue Z in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and tree cover (80). Traffic safety (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Avenue Z. Reported crashes here have injured 122 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 24 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 261 of them. The whole 311 file on Avenue Z holds 923 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 130 reports, then blocked driveway at 91. In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on Avenue Z. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue Z carries roughly 74 reports per 100 of them.
Avenue Z carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 26 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (24 violations) and paint and lead (14). PLUTO counts 172 residential buildings and 1,240 homes on Avenue Z, with 29 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.2 homes each.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 33. A 33 on infrastructure places Avenue Z in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 50 and parking at 35. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and transit at 59. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. Avenue Z is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
29% of the 1,240 homes recorded on Avenue Z are rent-stabilized, 365 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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