E New York Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does E New York Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E New York Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (65) and transit (85). Traffic safety (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East New York Avenue. 223 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 20 among busy avenues. The 311 file on East New York Avenue is led by residential noise, with 235 reports. Residential noise accounts for 17% of the 1,359 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 169 reports, and heat and hot water with 89. Reports on East New York Avenue span 88 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,628 homes on file, that is about 52 reports per 100 homes.
East New York Avenue carries 158 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 121 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (101 violations) and structure (52). PLUTO counts 190 residential buildings and 2,628 homes on East New York Avenue, with 60 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. The average building on East New York Avenue holds about 14 homes.
Among busy avenues, East New York Avenue ranks 63 on infrastructure and 46 on housing. That 46 on housing puts East New York Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 56 and cleanliness at 56. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 83 and food nearby at 55. East New York Avenue ranks 85 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band East New York Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East New York Avenue is parking, at 65.
15% of the 2,628 homes recorded on East New York Avenue are rent-stabilized, 404 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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