Brookhaven Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Brookhaven Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Brookhaven Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (77) and transit (73). Parking (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Brookhaven Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 51 of them, and parking ranks 10 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 235 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 31 reports, and heat and hot water with 30. The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Brookhaven Avenue carries roughly 81 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 16 Class C violations on Brookhaven Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Brookhaven Avenue is pests, at 17 violations. City housing records put 290 homes in 87 residential buildings on Brookhaven Avenue, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Brookhaven Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 42, with housing at 15. A 15 on housing places Brookhaven Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 40 and cleanliness at 32. Against every street in the city, Brookhaven Avenue ranks 38 on tree cover and 23 on food nearby. Brookhaven Avenue ranks 73 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Brookhaven Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
The housing file puts 44% of the 290 homes on Brookhaven Avenue in rent stabilization, 129 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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Brookhaven Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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