Hale Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Hale Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 38, 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 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and transit (86). Quietness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Hale Avenue, with 41 reports. The whole 311 file on Hale Avenue holds 142 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (28 reports) and residential noise (27). The file runs across 32 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 252 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Hale Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 16 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 13 violations. The housing file lists 112 residential buildings on Hale Avenue holding 252 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 60, with traffic safety at 29. A 29 on traffic safety places Hale Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 37 and housing at 33 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 72 and tree cover 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Hale Avenue ranks 86 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Hale Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Hale Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 97.
None of the 252 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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