Bay Ridge Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Bay Ridge Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Bay Ridge Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and tree cover (92); parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bay Ridge Avenue, with 896 reports, and parking ranks 9 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 96 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 64 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, street crime ranks 85 among busy avenues. Only about 6% of the 2,320 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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