Cypress Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Cypress Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Cypress Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (76) and food nearby (72). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Cypress Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 46 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Commercial noise is the most-filed, with 51 reports. Across every category, 151 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name commercial noise. Blocked driveway follows with 41 reports, and illegal parking with 14. Reports on Cypress Avenue span 40 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 127 reports for every 100 homes on Cypress Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Cypress Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 63 residential buildings on Cypress Avenue hold the 119 homes on file, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 46 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 5. That 5 on quietness puts Cypress Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 39 on the same scale, with parking at 39. Against every street in the city, Cypress Avenue ranks 48 on tree cover and 34 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Cypress Avenue, at 72. Cypress Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
Of the 119 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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