Christopher Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Christopher Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Christopher Avenue in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and transit (74). Food nearby (51) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Christopher Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 98 of them. The whole 311 file on Christopher Avenue holds 263 reports, and heat and hot water is 37% of it. Residential noise follows with 45 reports, and blocked driveway with 30. Reports on Christopher Avenue span 45 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,325 homes on file, that is about 20 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 48 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Christopher Avenue, 21 violations of it. Pests accounts for 19 more, and paint and lead for 11. City housing records put 1,325 homes in 137 residential buildings on Christopher Avenue, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Christopher Avenue holds about 9.7 homes.
Reported crashes on Christopher Avenue have injured 22 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 89 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 53. A 53 on cleanliness places Christopher Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 88 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 70. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 69 and food nearby at 51. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Christopher Avenue, at 74. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Christopher Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Christopher Avenue is infrastructure, at 93.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,325 on Christopher Avenue.
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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Christopher Avenue runs through Brownsville, 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).