Lawrence Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Lawrence Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lawrence Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (53) and transit (68). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Lawrence Avenue, with 119 reports. Across every category, 350 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to rodent (24 reports) and blocked driveway (22). The file runs across 43 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Lawrence Avenue carries roughly 149 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Lawrence Avenue carries 32 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Structure is what HPD writes up most on Lawrence Avenue, 57 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 46 more, and pests for 42. City housing records put 235 homes in 50 residential buildings on Lawrence Avenue, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.7 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Lawrence Avenue ranks 49 on traffic safety and 6 on parking. A 6 on parking places Lawrence Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 17 on the same scale, with housing at 7. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 55 and tree cover at 55. Lawrence Avenue ranks 68 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 53.
About 14% of the 235 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 34 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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