Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against major corridors. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Coney Island Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (67) and tree cover (99). Parking (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Coney Island Avenue, with 2,032 reports, and parking ranks 18 among major corridors. The whole 311 file on Coney Island Avenue holds 4,761 reports, and illegal parking is 43% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 341 reports, then residential noise at 211. Reports on Coney Island Avenue span 111 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 204 reports for every 100 homes on Coney Island Avenue.
Inspectors have written 296 Class C violations on Coney Island Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Coney Island Avenue is pests, at 240 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 150 more, and bed bugs for 120. PLUTO counts 537 residential buildings and 2,333 homes on Coney Island Avenue, with 83 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 431 people injured in crashes on Coney Island Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 54 among major corridors and housing ranks 22. That 22 on housing puts Coney Island Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, traffic safety sits at 52 and cleanliness at 32. Food nearby ranks 77 and transit 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Coney Island Avenue ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Coney Island Avenue is quietness, at 62.
The housing file puts 18% of the 2,333 homes on Coney Island Avenue in rent stabilization, 405 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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