Kingston Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Kingston Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against busy avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Kingston Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (92) and tree cover (85). Housing (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Kingston Avenue, with 442 reports. Across every category, 1,835 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (349 reports) and residential noise (184). Reports on Kingston Avenue span 89 distinct 311 categories. About 138 reports per 100 homes sit on Kingston Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 299 Class C violations on Kingston Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Kingston Avenue is pests, at 150 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (129 violations) and doors (87). The housing file lists 186 residential buildings on Kingston Avenue holding 1,330 homes, with 50 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 7.2 homes to a building.
NYPD records 113 people injured in crashes on Kingston Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Kingston Avenue ranks 61 on quietness and 45 on traffic safety. That 45 on traffic safety puts Kingston Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 49 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 45. Against every street in the city, Kingston Avenue ranks 64 on transit and 62 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. Kingston Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Kingston Avenue is infrastructure, at 92.
About 29% of the 1,330 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 388 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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