Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Cropsey Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against busy avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Cropsey Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (88) and tree cover (88). Traffic safety (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Cropsey Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 263 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 18 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Cropsey Avenue, with 493 reports. The whole 311 file on Cropsey Avenue holds 1,737 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (222 reports) and maintenance or facility (107). The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. About 55 reports per 100 homes sit on Cropsey Avenue, counting every category.
Cropsey Avenue carries 56 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 66 violations on file. Pests follows at 52 violations, then bed bugs at 32. City housing records put 3,136 homes in 246 residential buildings on Cropsey Avenue, 75 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Cropsey Avenue ranks 80 on cleanliness and 18 on parking. Cropsey Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts quietness at 72 and infrastructure at 51 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 57 and food nearby 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Cropsey Avenue, at 88. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Cropsey Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
The housing file puts 19% of the 3,136 homes on Cropsey Avenue in rent stabilization, 632 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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