Bay Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Bay Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bay Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (58) and transit (67). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bay Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 57 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Bay Avenue holds 236 reports, and residential noise is 24% of it. Illegal parking follows with 41 reports, and blocked driveway with 30. In all, 17 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay Avenue. Set against the 23 homes on file, that is about 1,026 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Bay Avenue. 22 residential buildings on Bay Avenue hold the 23 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 57 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 0. A 0 on parking places Bay Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 46 and infrastructure at 26. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 59 and tree cover at 30. Bay Avenue ranks 67 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is where Bay Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 58.
None of the 23 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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