Elmwood Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Elmwood Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Elmwood Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and transit (72). Housing (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Elmwood Avenue, with 32 reports. The whole 311 file on Elmwood Avenue holds 129 reports, and residential noise is 25% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 21 reports, then commercial noise at 12. In all, 38 distinct 311 categories are represented on Elmwood Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Elmwood Avenue carries roughly 64 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 18 Class C violations on Elmwood Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 48 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 24 violations. City housing records put 201 homes in 27 residential buildings on Elmwood Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 7.4 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 87 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 40. That 40 on traffic safety puts Elmwood Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 49 and quietness at 47 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Elmwood Avenue ranks 48 on food nearby and 27 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Elmwood Avenue, at 72. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Elmwood Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
About 32% of the 201 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 64 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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