Greenwood Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

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 (76) and transit (83); cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Greenwood Avenue, with 51 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among smaller avenues. HPD has cited 17 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, infrastructure ranks 76 among smaller avenues. Only about 13% of the 380 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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