Georgia Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Georgia Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Georgia Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (47) and tree cover (87). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Georgia Avenue, with 130 reports. Across every category, 489 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (57 reports) and heat and hot water (54). The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 696 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 58 Class C violations on Georgia Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Georgia Avenue is pests, at 75 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (36 violations) and paint and lead (34). 181 residential buildings on Georgia Avenue hold the 696 homes on file, 42 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.8 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 72 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 46, with traffic safety at 12. A 12 on traffic safety places Georgia Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 30 and cleanliness at 17. Against every street in the city, Georgia Avenue ranks 72 on transit and 55 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Georgia Avenue, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Georgia Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 47.
The housing file puts 13% of the 696 homes on Georgia Avenue in rent stabilization, 90 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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Georgia Avenue runs through East New York & New Lots and East New York, 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).