Lee Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Lee Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 84, ranked against busy avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Lee Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (100) and transit (76). Food nearby (39) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Lee Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 41 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 59 among busy avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 29 reports. Across every category, 235 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 12% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (22 reports) and dirty condition (21). The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. About 37 reports per 100 homes sit on Lee Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Lee Avenue carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Lee Avenue is bed bugs, at 64 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 46 violations. City housing records put 630 homes in 130 residential buildings on Lee Avenue, 25 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Lee Avenue holds about 4.8 homes.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 99, with traffic safety at 59. That 59 on traffic safety puts Lee Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 95 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 73. Against every street in the city, Lee Avenue ranks 70 on tree cover and 39 on food nearby. Lee Avenue ranks 76 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Lee Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lee Avenue is parking, at 100.
The housing file puts 15% of the 630 homes on Lee Avenue in rent stabilization, 87 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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Lee Avenue runs through South Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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