Bergen Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Bergen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Bergen Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (53) and tree cover (88). Transit (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bergen Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 44 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 224 reports on file here. Derelict vehicles is the next most-filed at 28 reports, then blocked driveway at 23. In all, 43 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bergen Avenue. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on Bergen Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Bergen Avenue carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bergen Avenue, 44 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 34 violations. The housing file lists 128 residential buildings on Bergen Avenue holding 348 homes, with 64 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Bergen Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Bergen Avenue ranks 42 on traffic safety and 12 on cleanliness. A 12 on cleanliness places Bergen Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 40 and housing at 13. Against every street in the city, Bergen Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 1 on transit. Bergen Avenue ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Bergen Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Bergen Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 53.
20% of the 348 homes recorded on Bergen Avenue are rent-stabilized, 68 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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Bergen Avenue runs through Marine Park, 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).