Emmons Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Emmons Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Emmons Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (61) and tree cover (88). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Emmons Avenue, with 336 reports. Across every category, 1,408 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to sidewalk condition (71 reports) and residential noise (71). The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 971 homes on file, that is about 145 reports per 100 homes.
Emmons Avenue carries 115 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Emmons Avenue is paint and lead, at 62 violations. Plumbing follows at 37 violations, then doors at 31. PLUTO counts 36 residential buildings and 971 homes on Emmons Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Emmons Avenue holds about 27 homes.
NYPD records 71 people injured in crashes on Emmons Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 28 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 4. That 4 on cleanliness puts Emmons Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 25 and parking at 5. Against every street in the city, Emmons Avenue ranks 62 on food nearby and 33 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Emmons Avenue is quietness, at 58.
About 37% of the 971 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 359 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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