Lawrence Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Lawrence Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.

Calm 27, 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 16% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (57) and transit (68); street crime (6) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Lawrence Avenue, with 119 reports. HPD has cited 35 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. On the other side, infrastructure ranks 57 among smaller avenues. Only about 14% of the 235 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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