Battery Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Battery Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Battery Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and transit (62). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Battery Avenue, with 101 reports, and parking ranks 16 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 223 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 56 reports, and sidewalk condition with 14. Reports on Battery Avenue span 26 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 65 reports for every 100 homes on Battery Avenue.
The HPD file on Battery Avenue carries 4 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 Battery Avenue is bed bugs, at 10 violations. City housing records put 342 homes in 158 residential buildings on Battery Avenue, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Battery Avenue holds about 2.2 homes.
Among smaller avenues, Battery Avenue ranks 76 on traffic safety and 28 on housing. A 28 on housing places Battery Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 58 and infrastructure at 43 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 57 and food nearby 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Battery Avenue, at 62. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
None of the 342 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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