Benson Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Benson Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 49, 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 Benson Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and food nearby (82). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Benson Avenue, with 366 reports, and parking ranks 7 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Benson Avenue holds 777 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 96 reports, and residential noise with 43. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 941 homes on file, that is about 83 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 26 Class C violations on Benson Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 40 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (23 violations) and doors (20). City housing records put 941 homes in 195 residential buildings on Benson Avenue, 67 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 66 people injured in crashes on Benson Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Benson Avenue ranks 82 on quietness and 20 on traffic safety. Benson Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. The card also puts housing at 41 and infrastructure at 23 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 81 and transit 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
About 33% of the 941 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 314 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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