Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Driggs Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against busy avenues. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Driggs Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (86) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Driggs Avenue, with 176 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,051 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (153 reports) and graffiti (117). In all, 91 distinct 311 categories are represented on Driggs Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 83 reports for every 100 homes on Driggs Avenue.
Inspectors have written 54 Class C violations on Driggs Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Driggs Avenue, 54 violations of it. Pests accounts for 45 more, and doors for 13. The housing file lists 184 residential buildings on Driggs Avenue holding 1,268 homes, with 97 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on Driggs Avenue have injured 61 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 75 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 38. Driggs Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 58 and traffic safety at 57 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Driggs Avenue ranks 88 on tree cover and 71 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Driggs Avenue, at 94. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Driggs Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Driggs Avenue is parking, at 79.
The housing file puts 25% of the 1,268 homes on Driggs Avenue in rent stabilization, 307 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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Driggs Avenue runs through Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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