Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Johnson Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Johnson Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (73) and food nearby (83). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Johnson Avenue, with 77 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among busy avenues. Across every category, 337 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 67 reports, then heat and hot water at 50. In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on Johnson Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 50 reports for every 100 homes on Johnson Avenue.
The HPD file on Johnson Avenue carries 28 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Johnson Avenue, 16 violations of it. Heat and hot water follows at 13 violations, then doors at 12. PLUTO counts 30 residential buildings and 672 homes on Johnson Avenue, with 12 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 22 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Johnson Avenue have injured 60 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Johnson Avenue ranks 73 on infrastructure and 20 on traffic safety. A 20 on traffic safety places Johnson Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 73 and parking at 40 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Johnson Avenue ranks 74 on transit and 67 on tree cover. Johnson Avenue ranks 83 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Johnson Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Johnson Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 73.
The housing file puts 33% of the 672 homes on Johnson Avenue in rent stabilization, 219 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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Johnson Avenue runs through East Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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