Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 Flatlands Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (85) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Flatlands Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Flatlands Avenue have injured 645 people, and traffic safety ranks 0 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 104 of them. Across every category, 779 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name illegal parking. Street condition follows with 95 reports, and blocked driveway with 70. In all, 85 distinct 311 categories are represented on Flatlands Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Flatlands Avenue carries roughly 79 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 46 Class C violations on Flatlands 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 Flatlands Avenue, 41 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (28 violations) and paint and lead (18). PLUTO counts 297 residential buildings and 984 homes on Flatlands Avenue, with 21 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 83 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 19. Flatlands Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 75 and parking at 57. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 38, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Flatlands Avenue ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Flatlands Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Flatlands Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 85.
The housing file puts 2% of the 984 homes on Flatlands Avenue in rent stabilization, 24 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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