Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Hudson Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Hudson Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and transit (94). Parking (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Hudson Avenue name encampment than any other category, 121 of them, and parking ranks 26 among smaller avenues. Encampment accounts for 85% of the 143 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 50 reports, and homeless person assistance with 10. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Hudson Avenue carries roughly 242 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Hudson Avenue. City housing records put 59 homes in 21 residential buildings on Hudson Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 70 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 40. A 40 on cleanliness places Hudson Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 55 and housing at 50 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Hudson Avenue ranks 90 on food nearby and 35 on tree cover. Hudson Avenue ranks 94 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hudson Avenue is infrastructure, at 94.
Of the 59 homes on file, none 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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Hudson Avenue runs through DUMBO and Fort Greene, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).