Lenox Road, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Lenox Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lenox Road in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (70) and tree cover (91). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lenox Road name heat and hot water than any other category, 811 of them. The whole 311 file on Lenox Road holds 5,287 reports, and heat and hot water is 15% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 487 reports, then illegal parking at 254. In all, 88 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lenox Road. About 124 reports per 100 homes sit on Lenox Road, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 1,079 Class C violations on Lenox Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 25 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 642 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (591 violations) and doors (324). The housing file lists 370 residential buildings on Lenox Road holding 4,251 homes, with 120 walk-ups and 43 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Since 2021, 180 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Lenox Road ranks 53 on parking and 14 on traffic safety. A 14 on traffic safety places Lenox Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 36 on the same scale, with quietness at 15. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 72 and transit at 46. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
Rent stabilization covers about 56% of the 4,251 homes on file, 2,301 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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