Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Buffalo Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Buffalo Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and transit (75). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Buffalo Avenue. 176 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Buffalo Avenue is led by heat and hot water, with 70 reports. Across every category, 545 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 54 reports, then blocked driveway at 46. Reports on Buffalo Avenue span 52 distinct 311 categories. About 116 reports per 100 homes sit on Buffalo Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Buffalo Avenue carries 119 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 25 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Buffalo Avenue is paint and lead, at 51 violations. Pests accounts for 49 more, and structure for 34. The housing file lists 85 residential buildings on Buffalo Avenue holding 468 homes, with 32 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.5 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 66 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 14. That 14 on cleanliness puts Buffalo Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 54 and housing at 17 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Buffalo Avenue ranks 53 on tree cover and 51 on food nearby. Buffalo Avenue ranks 75 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Buffalo Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Buffalo Avenue is quietness, at 75.
Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 468 homes on file, 120 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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