Lancaster Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Lancaster Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Lancaster Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and food nearby (63). Tree cover (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Lancaster Avenue, with 28 reports. Across every category, 42 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 67% of them name blocked driveway. General construction and plumbing is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. Reports on Lancaster Avenue span 22 distinct 311 categories. About 37 reports per 100 homes sit on Lancaster Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Lancaster Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 64 residential buildings on Lancaster Avenue hold the 114 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 58, with parking at 34. That 34 on parking puts Lancaster Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 52 and traffic safety at 41 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Lancaster Avenue ranks 44 on transit and 26 on tree cover. Lancaster Avenue ranks 63 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Lancaster Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 114 on Lancaster Avenue.
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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