Chestnut Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Chestnut Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Chestnut Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (81) and transit (80). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Chestnut Avenue, with 30 reports. The whole 311 file on Chestnut Avenue holds 74 reports, and heat and hot water is 41% of it. General follows with 17 reports. In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on Chestnut Avenue. About 130 reports per 100 homes sit on Chestnut Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Chestnut Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 39, with quietness at 15. That 15 on quietness puts Chestnut Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 25 and housing at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 75 and tree cover at 4. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Chestnut Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 64.
Rent stabilization covers about 100% of the 57 homes on file, 57 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
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Chestnut Avenue runs through Midwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).