Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — From Downtown to Ditmas
Flatbush Ave spans Brooklyn from downtown to the southern tip. Diverse neighborhoods, varied scores. See block-level data.
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against major corridors. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Flatbush Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (76) and tree cover (99). Cleanliness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Flatbush Avenue, with 766 reports, and cleanliness ranks 15 among major corridors. Across every category, 4,182 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name heat and hot water. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 716 reports, then illegal parking at 558. The file runs across 120 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 5,507 homes on file, that is about 76 reports per 100 homes.
Flatbush Avenue carries 386 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Flatbush Avenue is pests, at 292 violations. Paint and lead follows at 167 violations, then doors at 150. 640 residential buildings on Flatbush Avenue hold the 5,507 homes on file, 55 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 19 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Flatbush Avenue holds about 8.6 homes.
Reported crashes on Flatbush Avenue have injured 1,396 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 59 among major corridors and traffic safety ranks 28. A 28 on traffic safety places Flatbush Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts quietness at 43 and housing at 32 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, Flatbush Avenue ranks 79 on food nearby and 45 on transit. Flatbush Avenue ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Parking is where Flatbush Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 76.
The housing file puts 36% of the 5,507 homes on Flatbush Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,907 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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Flatbush Avenue runs through Flatlands, Flatbush and Marine Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).