Kingsland Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Kingsland Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Kingsland Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (82) and tree cover (81). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Traffic is the most-filed complaint on Kingsland Avenue, with 339 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Kingsland Avenue holds 562 reports, and traffic is 60% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (193 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (114). Reports on Kingsland Avenue span 73 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Kingsland Avenue carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Kingsland Avenue carries 36 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Kingsland Avenue, 48 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (40 violations) and paint and lead (14). 163 residential buildings on Kingsland Avenue hold the 1,549 homes on file, 115 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Kingsland Avenue holds about 9.5 homes.
Since 2021, 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Kingsland Avenue ranks 70 on housing and 48 on infrastructure. A 48 on infrastructure places Kingsland Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 67 and parking at 64. Food nearby ranks 63 and transit 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 81. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Kingsland Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Kingsland Avenue is quietness, at 82.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 1,549 homes on file, 141 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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