Graham Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Graham Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Graham Avenue in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Graham Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 343 of them, and cleanliness ranks 1 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,902 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Graffiti follows with 207 reports, and commercial noise with 173. Reports on Graham Avenue span 92 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 83 reports for every 100 homes on Graham Avenue.
Inspectors have written 128 Class C violations on Graham Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 97 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 62 more, and paint and lead for 55. The housing file lists 300 residential buildings on Graham Avenue holding 2,283 homes, with 89 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on Graham Avenue have injured 115 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 85, with traffic safety at 63. A 63 on traffic safety places Graham Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 74 and quietness at 64. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 80 and transit at 79. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Graham Avenue, at 92. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Graham Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Graham Avenue is infrastructure, at 95.
13% of the 2,283 homes recorded on Graham Avenue are rent-stabilized, 284 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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Graham Avenue runs through East Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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