Canal Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Canal Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 17, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Canal Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and transit (20). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 10 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Canal Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 32 residential buildings on Canal Avenue hold the 37 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 81 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 31. That 31 on traffic safety puts Canal Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 54 on the same scale, with housing at 34. Against every street in the city, Canal Avenue ranks 16 on tree cover and 12 on food nearby. Canal Avenue ranks 20 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Canal Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
None of the 37 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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