Chester Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Chester Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Chester Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (86) and transit (78). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Chester Avenue, with 38 reports, and cleanliness ranks 14 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 110 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then street condition at 12. In all, 33 distinct 311 categories are represented on Chester Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Chester Avenue carries roughly 28 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on Chester Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Chester Avenue is bed bugs, at 18 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 14 violations. The housing file lists 95 residential buildings on Chester Avenue holding 392 homes, with 30 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on Chester Avenue have injured 6 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 80, with housing at 31. Chester Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts parking at 51 and traffic safety at 44 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 75 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Chester Avenue ranks 78 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
The housing file puts 7% of the 392 homes on Chester Avenue in rent stabilization, 27 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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