Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Brooklyn Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Brooklyn Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (53) and tree cover (93). Traffic safety (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Brooklyn Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 283 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 13 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Brooklyn Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 438 reports. Across every category, 2,661 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (405 reports) and heat and hot water (278). In all, 92 distinct 311 categories are represented on Brooklyn Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 95 reports for every 100 homes on Brooklyn Avenue.
Brooklyn Avenue carries 345 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Brooklyn Avenue, 222 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (203 violations) and doors (156). The housing file lists 580 residential buildings on Brooklyn Avenue holding 2,795 homes, with 92 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.8 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Brooklyn Avenue ranks 41 on cleanliness and 23 on quietness. That 23 on quietness puts Brooklyn Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 27 and housing at 24 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Brooklyn Avenue ranks 69 on transit and 53 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Brooklyn Avenue, at 93. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Brooklyn Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 42.
The housing file puts 44% of the 2,795 homes on Brooklyn Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,219 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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