Florence Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Florence Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 15, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Florence Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (84) and food nearby (27). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 9 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Florence Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 27 residential buildings and 28 homes on Florence Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Florence Avenue have injured no one.
Among smaller avenues, Florence Avenue ranks 62 on traffic safety and 8 on infrastructure. Florence Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 49 on the same scale, with housing at 39. Transit ranks 7 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Florence Avenue ranks 27 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Florence Avenue is quietness, at 84.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 28 on Florence Avenue.
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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