Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Lexington Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against major corridors. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lexington Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (66) and tree cover (86). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lexington Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 326 of them, and cleanliness ranks 4 among major corridors. The whole 311 file on Lexington Avenue holds 1,168 reports, and residential noise is 28% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 272 reports, then heat and hot water at 90. Reports on Lexington Avenue span 86 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Lexington Avenue carries roughly 57 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Lexington Avenue carries 107 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lexington Avenue, 119 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 53 violations, then paint and lead at 41. 447 residential buildings on Lexington Avenue hold the 2,065 homes on file, 108 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.6 homes each.
NYPD records 54 people injured in crashes on Lexington Avenue since 2021.
Against major corridors, infrastructure comes in at 62, with quietness at 13. That 13 on quietness puts Lexington Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Parking ranks 41 on the same scale, with housing at 16. Against every street in the city, Lexington Avenue ranks 74 on food nearby and 72 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. About 190 major corridors make up the band Lexington Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
The housing file puts 25% of the 2,065 homes on Lexington Avenue in rent stabilization, 485 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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Lexington Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).