Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Ditmas Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Ditmas Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (66) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Ditmas Avenue. 210 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Ditmas Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 265 reports. Across every category, 1,144 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 93 reports, and residential noise with 63. The file runs across 79 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Ditmas Avenue carries roughly 135 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Ditmas Avenue carries 67 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Ditmas Avenue, 52 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (29 violations) and doors (21). The housing file lists 147 residential buildings on Ditmas Avenue holding 846 homes, with 27 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.8 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Ditmas Avenue ranks 56 on housing and 8 on parking. That 8 on parking puts Ditmas Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 33 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 9. Against every street in the city, Ditmas Avenue ranks 68 on food nearby and 64 on transit. Ditmas Avenue ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ditmas Avenue is quietness, at 66.
32% of the 846 homes recorded on Ditmas Avenue are rent-stabilized, 269 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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