Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Flushing Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (91) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Flushing Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Flushing Avenue have injured 504 people, and traffic safety ranks 3 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Flushing Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 289 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 29% of the 992 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (119 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (102). Reports on Flushing Avenue span 94 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Flushing Avenue carries roughly 62 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 22 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Flushing Avenue is bed bugs, at 39 violations. Pests follows at 38 violations, then doors at 18. PLUTO counts 141 residential buildings and 1,602 homes on Flushing Avenue, with 23 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 70 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 13. That 13 on cleanliness puts Flushing Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 56 and infrastructure at 45 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 79 and transit 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Flushing Avenue ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Flushing Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Flushing Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 91.
The housing file puts 21% of the 1,602 homes on Flushing Avenue in rent stabilization, 318 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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Flushing Avenue runs through East Williamsburg and South Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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