Highlawn Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Highlawn Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Highlawn Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and transit (66). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Highlawn Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 167 of them, and cleanliness ranks 18 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Highlawn Avenue holds 261 reports, and illegal parking is 64% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 37 reports, and dirty condition with 14. Reports on Highlawn Avenue span 38 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Highlawn Avenue carries roughly 127 reports per 100 of them.
Highlawn Avenue carries 6 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Highlawn Avenue is bed bugs, at 20 violations. Pests follows at 14 violations. City housing records put 206 homes in 83 residential buildings on Highlawn Avenue, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Highlawn Avenue have injured 12 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 37 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 19. That 19 on parking puts Highlawn Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 37 and traffic safety at 34. Food nearby ranks 59 and tree cover 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Highlawn Avenue ranks 66 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Highlawn Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Highlawn Avenue is infrastructure, at 87.
None of the 206 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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