Howard Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Howard Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Howard Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and tree cover (93). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Howard Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 319 of them, and cleanliness ranks 11 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Howard Avenue holds 1,360 reports, and heat and hot water is 23% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 99 reports, then illegal parking at 89. Reports on Howard Avenue span 83 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 95 reports for every 100 homes on Howard Avenue.
Howard Avenue carries 328 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Howard Avenue, 265 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (156 violations) and heat and hot water (138). PLUTO counts 231 residential buildings and 1,435 homes on Howard Avenue, with 99 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 175 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Howard Avenue ranks 60 on quietness and 14 on traffic safety. Howard Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 44 on the same scale, with housing at 17. Against every street in the city, Howard Avenue ranks 73 on transit and 63 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Howard Avenue, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Howard Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 85.
About 20% of the 1,435 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 287 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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