Division Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Division Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Division Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (74) and transit (81). Traffic safety (43) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Division Avenue. 37 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 43 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 102 of them. Across every category, 400 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 29 reports, and street condition with 25. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. About 78 reports per 100 homes sit on Division Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 17 Class C violations on Division Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Division Avenue, 48 violations of it. Pests follows at 41 violations, then doors at 24. The housing file lists 93 residential buildings on Division Avenue holding 516 homes, with 27 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.5 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Division Avenue ranks 74 on housing and 46 on parking. A 46 on parking places Division Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 64 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 57. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 72 and tree cover at 70. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where Division Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 74.
About 4% of the 516 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 19 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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