Furman Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Furman Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Furman Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (81) and transit (92). Quietness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Maintenance or facility is the most-filed complaint on Furman Avenue, with 21 reports. The whole 311 file on Furman Avenue holds 59 reports, and maintenance or facility is 36% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (15 reports) and residential noise (13). In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on Furman Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 55 reports for every 100 homes on Furman Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Furman Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Furman Avenue is pests, at 11 violations. City housing records put 108 homes in 16 residential buildings on Furman Avenue, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Furman Avenue holds about 6.8 homes.
Among smaller avenues, Furman Avenue ranks 77 on infrastructure and 24 on traffic safety. A 24 on traffic safety places Furman Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 72 and housing at 33 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 51 and tree cover 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Furman Avenue ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Furman Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 81.
49% of the 108 homes recorded on Furman Avenue are rent-stabilized, 53 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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Furman Avenue runs through Bushwick, 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).