Glenwood Road, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Glenwood Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Glenwood Road in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (34) and tree cover (95). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Glenwood Road. 359 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Glenwood Road, with 407 reports. Across every category, 1,748 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (288 reports) and heat and hot water (121). The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,468 homes on file, that is about 119 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 145 Class C violations on Glenwood Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Glenwood Road, 103 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (88 violations) and structure (50). City housing records put 1,468 homes in 472 residential buildings on Glenwood Road, 48 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 13 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.1 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 26, with infrastructure at 17. Glenwood Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 24 and parking at 22 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Glenwood Road, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Glenwood Road is cleanliness, at 34.
About 32% of the 1,468 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 471 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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Glenwood Road runs through Canarsie, East Flatbush & Farragut and Flatbush, Ditmas Park & Parkville, 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).