Crooke Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Crooke Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Crooke Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and transit (84). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Crooke Avenue, with 588 reports. After that the file runs to illegal parking (121 reports) and blocked driveway (68). Reports on Crooke Avenue span 45 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 92 reports for every 100 homes on Crooke Avenue.
Inspectors have written 34 Class C violations on Crooke Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Crooke Avenue is doors, at 31 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 23 more, and pests for 22. The housing file lists 13 residential buildings on Crooke Avenue holding 461 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 35 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Crooke Avenue ranks 54 on traffic safety and 13 on parking. That 13 on parking puts Crooke Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 28 and quietness at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and tree cover at 38. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. Crooke Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
The housing file puts 65% of the 461 homes on Crooke Avenue in rent stabilization, 298 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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