Highland Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Highland Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 5, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Highland Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and food nearby (12). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 9 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited 16 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Highland Avenue is heat and hot water, at 10 violations. City housing records put 43 homes in 22 residential buildings on Highland Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Highland Avenue ranks 90 on quietness and 5 on housing. Highland Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 84 and traffic safety at 33 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Highland Avenue ranks 1 on transit and 0 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Highland Avenue, at 12. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Highland Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Highland Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 43 on Highland Avenue.
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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