Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Knickerbocker Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and food nearby (89). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Knickerbocker Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 457 of them, and cleanliness ranks 18 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Knickerbocker Avenue holds 2,101 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. Commercial noise follows with 395 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 376. The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. About 146 reports per 100 homes sit on Knickerbocker Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Knickerbocker Avenue carries 96 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Knickerbocker Avenue, 145 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 99 more, and doors for 71. PLUTO counts 264 residential buildings and 1,438 homes on Knickerbocker Avenue, with 87 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Knickerbocker Avenue holds about 5.4 homes.
Reported crashes on Knickerbocker Avenue have injured 261 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 69, with quietness at 25. Knickerbocker Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts housing at 68 and traffic safety at 27 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 88 and transit 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Knickerbocker Avenue ranks 89 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Knickerbocker Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Knickerbocker Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 83.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 1,438 homes on file, 250 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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Knickerbocker Avenue runs through Bushwick and East Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).