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

Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Hale Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.

Calm 39, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Hale Avenue in the top 42% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (96) and transit (86); quietness (18) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Hale Avenue, with 41 reports. HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 96 among smaller avenues. None of the 252 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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