Banner Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Banner Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Banner Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and transit (61). Parking (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Banner Avenue, with 54 reports, and parking ranks 25 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 174 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 12 reports, and derelict vehicles with 12. Reports on Banner Avenue span 43 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 51 reports for every 100 homes on Banner Avenue.
The HPD file on Banner Avenue carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Banner Avenue is bed bugs, at 24 violations. Pests follows at 16 violations. City housing records put 338 homes in 57 residential buildings on Banner Avenue, 25 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.9 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 56 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 27. Banner Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. Traffic safety ranks 51 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 30. Food nearby ranks 53 and tree cover 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Banner Avenue ranks 61 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Banner Avenue is infrastructure, at 93.
The housing file puts 16% of the 338 homes on Banner Avenue in rent stabilization, 55 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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