Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Franklin Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (70) and tree cover (93). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Franklin Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 341 of them, and cleanliness ranks 10 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Franklin Avenue holds 2,352 reports, and illegal parking is 14% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 197 reports, and residential noise with 178. In all, 105 distinct 311 categories are represented on Franklin Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Franklin Avenue carries roughly 95 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Franklin Avenue carries 201 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Franklin Avenue is pests, at 187 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 126 more, and paint and lead for 106. PLUTO counts 387 residential buildings and 2,468 homes on Franklin Avenue, with 168 walk-ups and 18 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 249 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 67 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 29. A 29 on traffic safety places Franklin Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 51 on the same scale, with quietness at 35. Food nearby ranks 86 and transit 84, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Franklin Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Franklin Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 70.
31% of the 2,468 homes recorded on Franklin Avenue are rent-stabilized, 655 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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Franklin Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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