Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Belmont Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Belmont Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (84) and tree cover (93). Traffic safety (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Belmont Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 152 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 16 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Belmont Avenue is led by blocked driveway, with 160 reports. Across every category, 783 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 131 reports, then residential noise at 114. Reports on Belmont Avenue span 73 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Belmont Avenue carries roughly 61 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 47 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Belmont Avenue, 99 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (57 violations) and bed bugs (53). PLUTO counts 288 residential buildings and 1,291 homes on Belmont Avenue, with 76 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.5 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Belmont Avenue ranks 70 on quietness and 41 on infrastructure. Belmont Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on infrastructure. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 56 and parking at 45. The citywide frame puts transit at 78 and food nearby at 59. Belmont Avenue ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
6% of the 1,291 homes recorded on Belmont Avenue are rent-stabilized, 73 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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