Greene Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Greene Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Greene Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (77) and tree cover (99). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Greene Avenue, with 369 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Greene Avenue holds 3,269 reports, and residential noise is 11% of it. Illegal parking follows with 334 reports, and heat and hot water with 299. Reports on Greene Avenue span 96 distinct 311 categories. About 79 reports per 100 homes sit on Greene Avenue, counting every category.
Greene Avenue carries 360 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Greene Avenue, 420 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (354 violations) and paint and lead (114). 992 residential buildings on Greene Avenue hold the 4,150 homes on file, 574 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 101 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 59, with quietness at 23. Greene Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 48 and housing at 30 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Greene Avenue ranks 78 on transit and 78 on food nearby. Greene Avenue ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Greene Avenue is parking, at 77.
About 14% of the 4,150 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 566 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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