Hegeman Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Hegeman Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Hegeman Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (74) and tree cover (89). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Hegeman Avenue. 182 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 12 among busy avenues. Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Hegeman Avenue, with 250 reports. Across every category, 1,212 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 197 reports, then illegal parking at 148. Reports on Hegeman Avenue span 69 distinct 311 categories. About 86 reports per 100 homes sit on Hegeman Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Hegeman Avenue carries 228 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Hegeman Avenue is pests, at 171 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 126 more, and doors for 77. The housing file lists 229 residential buildings on Hegeman Avenue holding 1,405 homes, with 64 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.1 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 69 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 27. A 27 on quietness places Hegeman Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 68 on the same scale, with housing at 28. Against every street in the city, Hegeman Avenue ranks 63 on transit and 55 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Hegeman Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Hegeman Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 74.
36% of the 1,405 homes recorded on Hegeman Avenue are rent-stabilized, 507 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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