Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lafayette Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and tree cover (96). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Lafayette Avenue, with 255 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Lafayette Avenue holds 2,439 reports, and residential noise is 10% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 204 reports, then heat and hot water at 183. In all, 93 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lafayette Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Lafayette Avenue carries roughly 65 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 328 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lafayette Avenue, 273 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (208 violations) and paint and lead (103). The housing file lists 628 residential buildings on Lafayette Avenue holding 3,727 homes, with 301 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.9 homes each.
NYPD records 180 people injured in crashes on Lafayette Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Lafayette Avenue ranks 50 on quietness and 35 on housing. A 35 on housing places Lafayette Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 43 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 37. Against every street in the city, Lafayette Avenue ranks 83 on transit and 80 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Lafayette Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lafayette Avenue is parking, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 3,727 homes on file, 602 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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