Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bushwick Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and tree cover (94). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Bushwick Avenue. 975 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among busy avenues. Commercial noise draws more reports than anything else here, 642 of them. Across every category, 2,869 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name commercial noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (615 reports) and illegal parking (308). In all, 97 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bushwick Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 79 reports for every 100 homes on Bushwick Avenue.
The HPD file on Bushwick Avenue carries 276 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bushwick Avenue, 262 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (158 violations) and paint and lead (143). City housing records put 3,613 homes in 553 residential buildings on Bushwick Avenue, 269 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 23 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bushwick Avenue holds about 6.5 homes.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 42, with cleanliness at 4. A 4 on cleanliness places Bushwick Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 34 and infrastructure at 20 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Bushwick Avenue ranks 86 on transit and 76 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Bushwick Avenue, at 94. Bushwick Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bushwick Avenue is parking, at 73.
About 26% of the 3,613 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 929 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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