Central Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Central Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Central Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (68) and tree cover (89). Traffic safety (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Central Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 196 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 21 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Central Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 283 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 22% of the 1,265 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 213 reports, then heat and hot water at 167. Reports on Central Avenue span 74 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,722 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
Central Avenue carries 126 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Central Avenue, 117 violations of it. Heat and hot water accounts for 82 more, and bed bugs for 77. The housing file lists 278 residential buildings on Central Avenue holding 1,722 homes, with 106 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.2 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 62 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 24. A 24 on cleanliness places Central Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 55 and housing at 55 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 82 and transit 79, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Central Avenue ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Central Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Central Avenue is parking, at 64.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 1,722 homes on file, 118 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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