Bath Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Bath Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 77, 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 Bath Avenue in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (96) and tree cover (85). Parking (32) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bath Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 694 of them, and parking ranks 32 among busy avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 56% of the 1,244 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 127 reports, then residential noise at 72. The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Bath Avenue carries roughly 156 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 12 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 46 violations on file. Pests follows at 37 violations, then doors at 11. 300 residential buildings on Bath Avenue hold the 798 homes on file, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 96 people injured in crashes on Bath Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 96, with traffic safety at 54. A 54 on traffic safety places Bath Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 90 and infrastructure at 83. Against every street in the city, Bath Avenue ranks 59 on transit and 59 on food nearby. Bath Avenue ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where Bath Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 798 homes on file, 5 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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Bath Avenue runs through Bath Beach and Gravesend, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).