Chester Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Chester Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 53, 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 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and transit (78); cleanliness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Chester Avenue, with 38 reports, and cleanliness ranks 20 among smaller avenues. HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, infrastructure ranks 84 among smaller avenues. Only about 7% of the 392 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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