Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Dekalb Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Dekalb Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and tree cover (96). Cleanliness (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Dekalb Avenue, with 631 reports, and cleanliness ranks 25 among busy avenues. Across every category, 2,790 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 486 reports, then encampment at 208. Reports on Dekalb Avenue span 100 distinct 311 categories. About 43 reports per 100 homes sit on Dekalb Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Dekalb Avenue carries 257 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Dekalb Avenue, 39 violations of it. Behind it the file holds mold (23 violations) and paint and lead (17). The housing file lists 582 residential buildings on Dekalb Avenue holding 6,429 homes, with 240 walk-ups and 29 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Dekalb Avenue have injured 331 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 73 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 40. That 40 on traffic safety puts Dekalb Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 72 and housing at 65 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Dekalb Avenue ranks 85 on transit and 85 on food nearby. Dekalb Avenue ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Dekalb Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
About 30% of the 6,429 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,957 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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Dekalb Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Fort Greene, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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