Grand Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Grand Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Grand Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (77) and food nearby (82). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Grand Avenue, with 224 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among busy avenues. Across every category, 932 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 117 reports, then heat and hot water at 96. Reports on Grand Avenue span 85 distinct 311 categories. About 74 reports per 100 homes sit on Grand Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 88 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 106 violations on file. Pests follows at 89 violations, then doors at 72. City housing records put 1,255 homes in 136 residential buildings on Grand Avenue, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Grand Avenue holds about 9.2 homes.
Reported crashes on Grand Avenue have injured 27 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 39, with quietness at 30. Grand Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on quietness. Housing ranks 39 on the same scale, with parking at 37. Tree cover ranks 82 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Grand Avenue ranks 82 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Grand Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Grand Avenue is traffic safety, at 63.
The housing file puts 25% of the 1,255 homes on Grand Avenue in rent stabilization, 297 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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