Kent Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Kent Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Kent Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and tree cover (82). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Kent Avenue, with 270 reports, and cleanliness ranks 19 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,464 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (235 reports) and commercial noise (167). Reports on Kent Avenue span 96 distinct 311 categories. About 36 reports per 100 homes sit on Kent Avenue, counting every category.
Kent Avenue carries 25 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Kent Avenue, 48 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 38 violations, then structure at 17. PLUTO counts 115 residential buildings and 4,047 homes on Kent Avenue, with 30 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 35 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Kent Avenue have injured 200 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 78, with traffic safety at 32. That 32 on traffic safety puts Kent Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 78 on the same scale, with quietness at 39. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 78 and transit at 47. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Kent Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
32% of the 4,047 homes recorded on Kent Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,289 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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