Independence Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Independence Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Independence Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and tree cover (36). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Independence Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 48 of them. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Independence Avenue. About 20 reports per 100 homes sit on Independence Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Independence Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 16 residential buildings on Independence Avenue hold the 157 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Independence Avenue holds about 9.8 homes.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 89, with parking at 45. That 45 on parking puts Independence Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 81 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 47. Transit ranks 28 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Independence Avenue, at 36. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Independence Avenue is infrastructure, at 90.
None of the 157 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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