Harway Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Harway Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Harway Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and transit (70). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Harway Avenue, with 163 reports, and parking ranks 12 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 245 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 67% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 19 reports, then residential noise at 15. In all, 44 distinct 311 categories are represented on Harway Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Harway Avenue carries roughly 101 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Harway Avenue is pests, at 15 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 15 violations. 111 residential buildings on Harway Avenue hold the 243 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on Harway Avenue have injured 12 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 70 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 31. That 31 on traffic safety puts Harway Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 39 and cleanliness at 32 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 55 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 70. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Harway Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Of the 243 homes on file, none 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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