Brightwater Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does Brightwater Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Brightwater Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and transit (67). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Brightwater Avenue name encampment than any other category, 30 of them. The whole 311 file on Brightwater Avenue holds 59 reports, and encampment is 51% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (14 reports) and general construction and plumbing (14). In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on Brightwater Avenue. About 28 reports per 100 homes sit on Brightwater Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Brightwater Avenue carries 16 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Brightwater Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Brightwater Avenue ranks 98 on infrastructure and 17 on housing. Brightwater Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 93 and quietness at 62. Against every street in the city, Brightwater Avenue ranks 55 on food nearby and 0 on tree cover. Brightwater Avenue ranks 67 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
About 2% of the 208 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 5 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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Brightwater Avenue runs through Brighton Beach, 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).