Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Greenpoint Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and food nearby (86). Traffic safety (36) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Greenpoint Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 70 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 36 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Greenpoint Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 265 reports. Across every category, 606 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (97 reports) and commercial noise (46). The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 733 homes on file, that is about 83 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on Greenpoint Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Greenpoint Avenue is bed bugs, at 20 violations. Pests follows at 18 violations. The housing file lists 90 residential buildings on Greenpoint Avenue holding 733 homes, with 36 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.1 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 52 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 38. Greenpoint Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on cleanliness. Parking ranks 49 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 47. Against every street in the city, Greenpoint Avenue ranks 67 on tree cover and 62 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Greenpoint Avenue, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
35% of the 733 homes recorded on Greenpoint Avenue are rent-stabilized, 255 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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