De Witt Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does De Witt Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts De Witt Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (75) and transit (61). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on De Witt Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 34 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 17 reports. The whole 311 file on De Witt Avenue holds 100 reports, and residential noise is 17% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 15 reports, then appliance at 11. In all, 29 distinct 311 categories are represented on De Witt Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 59 reports for every 100 homes on De Witt Avenue.
HPD has cited 10 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 14 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (14 violations) and safety devices (13). The housing file lists 26 residential buildings on De Witt Avenue holding 170 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.5 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 73, with housing at 15. De Witt Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 32 and cleanliness at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 31 and tree cover at 31. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 61. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on De Witt Avenue is infrastructure, at 75.
14% of the 170 homes recorded on De Witt Avenue are rent-stabilized, 20 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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De Witt Avenue runs through East New York & New Lots, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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