Engert Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Engert Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Engert Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (83) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Engert Avenue, with 74 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Engert Avenue holds 83 reports, and illegal parking is 89% of it. Graffiti is the next most-filed at 15 reports, then dirty condition at 12. In all, 38 distinct 311 categories are represented on Engert Avenue. About 23 reports per 100 homes sit on Engert Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Engert Avenue carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Engert Avenue is bed bugs, at 17 violations. PLUTO counts 55 residential buildings and 360 homes on Engert Avenue, with 34 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Engert Avenue have injured 5 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 82, with housing at 42. That 42 on housing puts Engert Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 70 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 51. Transit ranks 60 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Engert Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 83.
5% of the 360 homes recorded on Engert Avenue are rent-stabilized, 18 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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