Blake Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Blake Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Blake Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and tree cover (94). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Blake Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 258 of them. Residential noise accounts for 23% of the 1,112 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 179 reports, then blocked driveway at 75. Reports on Blake Avenue span 76 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Blake Avenue carries roughly 76 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Blake Avenue carries 136 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Blake Avenue, 97 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 60 violations, then doors at 36. City housing records put 1,471 homes in 350 residential buildings on Blake Avenue, 56 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 257 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 52 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 5. That 5 on traffic safety puts Blake Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 48 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 21. Against every street in the city, Blake Avenue ranks 68 on transit and 45 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Blake Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 1,471 homes on file, 136 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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Blake Avenue runs through East New York, Brownsville and East New York & City Line, 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).