Brightwater Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Brightwater Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 77, 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 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and transit (67); tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on Brightwater Avenue, with 30 reports. HPD has cited 16 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021. On the other side, street crime ranks 99 among smaller avenues. Only about 2% of the 208 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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