Greenwood Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Greenwood Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Greenwood Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (70) and transit (83). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Greenwood Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 51 of them, and cleanliness ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 27% of the 190 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (48 reports) and commercial noise (28). In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on Greenwood Avenue. Set against the 380 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 17 Class C violations on Greenwood Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 20 violations on file. City housing records put 380 homes in 101 residential buildings on Greenwood Avenue, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Greenwood Avenue holds about 3.8 homes.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Greenwood Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Greenwood Avenue ranks 61 on parking and 24 on housing. Greenwood Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Traffic safety ranks 43 on the same scale, with quietness at 34. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and tree cover at 55. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. Greenwood Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 380 homes on file, 49 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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