Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Carlton Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Carlton Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (72) and tree cover (93). Parking (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Carlton Avenue, with 561 reports, and parking ranks 10 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Carlton Avenue holds 1,328 reports, and illegal parking is 42% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 132 reports, and residential noise with 125. In all, 82 distinct 311 categories are represented on Carlton Avenue. Set against the 1,711 homes on file, that is about 78 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Carlton Avenue carries 58 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Carlton Avenue, 110 violations of it. Pests follows at 92 violations, then doors at 27. City housing records put 1,711 homes in 283 residential buildings on Carlton Avenue, 151 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Carlton Avenue have injured 50 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 52 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 36. Carlton Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on cleanliness. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 48 and housing at 48. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 89 and transit at 85. Carlton Avenue ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 54.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 1,711 homes on file, 446 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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