Irving Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Irving Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Irving Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (63) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Irving Avenue, with 448 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,843 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 267 reports, then residential noise at 258. The file runs across 87 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Irving Avenue carries roughly 149 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Irving Avenue carries 93 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Irving Avenue, 121 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 71 more, and bed bugs for 64. The housing file lists 260 residential buildings on Irving Avenue holding 1,237 homes, with 128 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Irving Avenue have injured 144 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 56 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 13. Irving Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts housing at 54 and traffic safety at 28 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 87 and transit 83, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Irving Avenue ranks 92 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Irving Avenue is infrastructure, at 63.
The housing file puts 15% of the 1,237 homes on Irving Avenue in rent stabilization, 182 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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