Evergreen Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Evergreen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Evergreen Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (63) and tree cover (86). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Evergreen Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 174 of them, and cleanliness ranks 9 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Evergreen Avenue holds 880 reports, and residential noise is 20% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 135 reports, then blocked driveway at 102. Reports on Evergreen Avenue span 78 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,186 homes on file, that is about 74 reports per 100 homes.

Inspectors have written 58 Class C violations on Evergreen Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Evergreen Avenue, 59 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (43 violations) and paint and lead (27). PLUTO counts 246 residential buildings and 1,186 homes on Evergreen Avenue, with 93 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Evergreen Avenue holds about 4.8 homes.

Since 2021, 151 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 53, with traffic safety at 16. Evergreen Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 45 on the same scale, with quietness at 34. Transit ranks 75 and food nearby 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Evergreen Avenue ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Evergreen Avenue is scored inside.

Parking is where Evergreen Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 59.

11% of the 1,186 homes recorded on Evergreen Avenue are rent-stabilized, 131 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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