Gerritsen Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Gerritsen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against busy avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Gerritsen Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (88) and tree cover (85). Infrastructure (14) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Gerritsen Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 55 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 17 among busy avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 516 reports. After that the file runs to illegal parking (142 reports) and blocked driveway (29). In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on Gerritsen Avenue. Set against the 602 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 22 Class C violations on Gerritsen Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Gerritsen Avenue is doors, at 20 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 12 more. 352 residential buildings on Gerritsen Avenue hold the 602 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 85, with traffic safety at 17. Gerritsen Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 79 and parking at 41. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Gerritsen Avenue ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Gerritsen Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Gerritsen Avenue is quietness, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 602 homes on file, 8 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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