Lefferts Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Lefferts Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lefferts Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (71) and tree cover (87). Cleanliness (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Lefferts Avenue, with 351 reports, and cleanliness ranks 18 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Lefferts Avenue holds 1,463 reports, and heat and hot water is 24% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 276 reports, then residential noise at 186. In all, 79 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lefferts Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 76 reports for every 100 homes on Lefferts Avenue.
HPD has cited 216 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 184 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (131 violations) and doors (113). City housing records put 1,931 homes in 263 residential buildings on Lefferts Avenue, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 21 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Lefferts Avenue holds about 7.3 homes.
NYPD records 47 people injured in crashes on Lefferts Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 54, with housing at 28. A 28 on housing places Lefferts Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 36 on the same scale, with quietness at 31. Transit ranks 76 and food nearby 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Lefferts Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 57.
57% of the 1,931 homes recorded on Lefferts Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,104 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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