Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
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 30, 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 24% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (74) 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. HPD has cited 114 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 24 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 70 reports. Transit ranks 75, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 63 against every street in the city. About 26% of the 468 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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