Dumont Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Dumont Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against busy avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Dumont Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and tree cover (93). Street crime (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Dumont Avenue, with 208 reports. Across every category, 965 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (99 reports) and heat and hot water (70). The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,394 homes on file, that is about 69 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Dumont Avenue carries 88 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Dumont Avenue, 133 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 99 more, and structure for 62. 200 residential buildings on Dumont Avenue hold the 1,394 homes on file, 51 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 199 people injured in crashes on Dumont Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Dumont Avenue ranks 49 on infrastructure and 9 on traffic safety. That 9 on traffic safety puts Dumont Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 39 and quietness at 31 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 71 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Dumont Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 6% of the 1,394 homes on file, 83 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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