Laurel Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Laurel Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 71, 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 Laurel Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (100) and food nearby (18). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 5 distinct 311 categories are represented on Laurel Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Laurel Avenue. The housing file lists 71 residential buildings on Laurel Avenue holding 140 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Laurel Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 95, with cleanliness at 31. That 31 on cleanliness puts Laurel Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 92 and housing at 44 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Laurel Avenue ranks 12 on tree cover and 8 on transit. Laurel Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Laurel Avenue is parking, at 100.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 140 on Laurel 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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Laurel Avenue runs through Coney Island, 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).