Gravesend Neck Road, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Gravesend Neck Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against busy avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Gravesend Neck Road in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and tree cover (70). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Gravesend Neck Road, with 188 reports, and parking ranks 14 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Gravesend Neck Road holds 816 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (54 reports) and abandoned vehicle (33). Reports on Gravesend Neck Road span 61 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Gravesend Neck Road carries roughly 176 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 57 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Gravesend Neck Road is paint and lead, at 30 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (26 violations) and pests (26). City housing records put 463 homes in 166 residential buildings on Gravesend Neck Road, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Gravesend Neck Road holds about 2.8 homes.
Since 2021, 30 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Gravesend Neck Road ranks 71 on infrastructure and 59 on cleanliness. Gravesend Neck Road sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on cleanliness. Traffic safety ranks 62 on the same scale, with housing at 62. The citywide frame puts transit at 63 and food nearby at 62. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 70. Gravesend Neck Road is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Gravesend Neck Road ranks best against busy avenues, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 24% of the 463 homes on file, 109 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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Gravesend Neck Road runs through Gravesend & Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay and Madison, 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).