Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Lewis Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lewis Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and tree cover (79). Traffic safety (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Lewis Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 141 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 17 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Lewis Avenue is led by residential noise, with 92 reports. Residential noise accounts for 17% of the 542 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (90 reports) and illegal parking (64). Reports on Lewis Avenue span 67 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Lewis Avenue carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
Lewis Avenue carries 64 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 59 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (44 violations) and paint and lead (26). PLUTO counts 154 residential buildings and 1,301 homes on Lewis Avenue, with 70 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Lewis Avenue holds about 8.4 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 66 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 39. That 39 on cleanliness puts Lewis Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 53 and infrastructure at 44 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 72 and transit 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Lewis Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Lewis Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 1,301 homes on file, 137 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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