Foster Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Foster Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Foster Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (67) and tree cover (94). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Foster Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 438 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Foster Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 571 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 2,927 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (276 reports) and residential noise (230). Reports on Foster Avenue span 93 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Foster Avenue carries roughly 97 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 399 Class C violations on Foster Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 260 violations on file. Doors accounts for 183 more, and paint and lead for 178. City housing records put 3,009 homes in 458 residential buildings on Foster Avenue, 65 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.6 homes each.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 51, with parking at 20. A 20 on parking places Foster Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 31 and cleanliness at 27. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 45 and transit at 43. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Foster Avenue is quietness, at 58.
About 59% of the 3,009 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,788 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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Foster Avenue runs through Canarsie, East Flatbush & Farragut and Flatbush, Ditmas Park & Parkville, 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).