Homecrest Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Homecrest Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Homecrest Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and food nearby (80). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Homecrest Avenue, with 245 reports, and parking ranks 23 among busy avenues. Across every category, 757 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (195 reports) and residential noise (145). In all, 74 distinct 311 categories are represented on Homecrest Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 60 reports for every 100 homes on Homecrest Avenue.
Homecrest Avenue carries 56 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Homecrest Avenue, 63 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (61 violations) and pests (47). PLUTO counts 137 residential buildings and 1,267 homes on Homecrest Avenue, with 31 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Homecrest Avenue ranks 84 on infrastructure and 44 on housing. That 44 on housing puts Homecrest Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 50 and cleanliness at 44. Against every street in the city, Homecrest Avenue ranks 76 on tree cover and 73 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Homecrest Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Homecrest Avenue is traffic safety, at 89.
About 46% of the 1,267 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 582 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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Homecrest Avenue runs through Gravesend & Homecrest and Sheepshead Bay, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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