Bay Ridge Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
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 74, 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 quietness (86) and tree cover (92). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bay Ridge Avenue, with 896 reports, and parking ranks 8 among busy avenues. Across every category, 2,312 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 169 reports, and heat and hot water with 96. In all, 82 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay Ridge Avenue. Set against the 2,320 homes on file, that is about 100 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 73 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Bay Ridge Avenue, 154 violations of it. Pests follows at 145 violations, then doors at 69. PLUTO counts 814 residential buildings and 2,320 homes on Bay Ridge Avenue, with 262 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on Bay Ridge Avenue have injured 64 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Bay Ridge Avenue ranks 62 on traffic safety and 20 on cleanliness. Bay Ridge Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 62 and infrastructure at 60 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 82 and transit 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bay Ridge Avenue ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
6% of the 2,320 homes recorded on Bay Ridge Avenue are rent-stabilized, 134 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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Bay Ridge Avenue runs through Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, 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).