Lake Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Lake Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 12, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Lake Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (12). Transit (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Dirty condition leads the 311 file on Lake Avenue, with 11 reports. The file runs across 12 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Lake Avenue carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. City housing records put 30 homes in 25 residential buildings on Lake Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Lake Avenue have injured no one.
Among smaller avenues, Lake Avenue ranks 93 on parking and 1 on cleanliness. A 1 on cleanliness places Lake Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 85 and housing at 20. Against every street in the city, Lake Avenue ranks 0 on transit and 0 on tree cover. Lake Avenue ranks 12 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Lake Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 95.
None of the 30 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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