Fountain Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Fountain Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against busy avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Fountain Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (59) and tree cover (87). Street crime (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Fountain Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 126 of them. Residential noise accounts for 18% of the 701 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal parking (101 reports) and heat and hot water (91). The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on Fountain Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 63 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 84 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 47 violations, then doors at 42. 165 residential buildings on Fountain Avenue hold the 1,299 homes on file, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 7.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 88 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Fountain Avenue ranks 54 on parking and 21 on traffic safety. A 21 on traffic safety places Fountain Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 45 and infrastructure at 23. The citywide frame puts transit at 35 and food nearby at 35. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Fountain Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
The housing file puts 9% of the 1,299 homes on Fountain Avenue in rent stabilization, 61 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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