Grant Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Grant Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Grant Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (83) and tree cover (88). Parking (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Grant Avenue, with 203 reports, and parking ranks 10 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Grant Avenue holds 754 reports, and illegal parking is 27% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 72 reports, then blocked driveway at 54. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. About 101 reports per 100 homes sit on Grant Avenue, counting every category.
Grant Avenue carries 61 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Grant Avenue, 58 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 28 more, and doors for 23. PLUTO counts 327 residential buildings and 744 homes on Grant Avenue, with 58 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 79 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 13. A 13 on infrastructure places Grant Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 37 and housing at 33 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Grant Avenue ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Grant Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 83.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 744 homes on file, 24 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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