Elm Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Elm Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Elm Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (88) and food nearby (72). Tree cover (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Elm Avenue name noise than any other category, 15 of them. The whole 311 file on Elm Avenue holds 45 reports, and noise is 33% of it. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 11 reports. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 117 homes on file, that is about 38 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 13 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Elm Avenue, 10 violations of it. The housing file lists 18 residential buildings on Elm Avenue holding 117 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.5 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Elm Avenue ranks 84 on infrastructure and 25 on housing. Elm Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 55 and traffic safety at 38. Transit ranks 69 and tree cover 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Elm Avenue, at 72. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 69% of the 117 homes on file, 81 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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