Gelston Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Gelston Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Gelston Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and transit (85). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Gelston Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 111 of them. The whole 311 file on Gelston Avenue holds 394 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (51 reports) and residential noise (14). The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 522 homes on file, that is about 75 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Gelston Avenue carries 44 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Gelston Avenue, 31 violations of it. Pests follows at 26 violations, then doors at 14. 102 residential buildings on Gelston Avenue hold the 522 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.1 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 69 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 21. That 21 on parking puts Gelston Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 65 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 26. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 83 and tree cover at 46. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Gelston Avenue, at 85. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Gelston Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
The housing file puts 50% of the 522 homes on Gelston Avenue in rent stabilization, 260 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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