Liberty Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Liberty Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Liberty Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (79) and tree cover (90). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Liberty Avenue, with 675 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,654 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name residential noise. Illegal dumping follows with 110 reports, and illegal parking with 104. In all, 84 distinct 311 categories are represented on Liberty Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Liberty Avenue carries roughly 196 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Liberty Avenue carries 66 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Liberty Avenue, 116 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 52 more, and paint and lead for 44. City housing records put 843 homes in 208 residential buildings on Liberty Avenue, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Liberty Avenue holds about 4.1 homes.
Since 2021, 341 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Liberty Avenue ranks 71 on parking and 8 on traffic safety. That 8 on traffic safety puts Liberty Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 59 on the same scale, with quietness at 11. Against every street in the city, Liberty Avenue ranks 82 on transit and 65 on food nearby. Liberty Avenue ranks 90 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 29% of the 843 homes on file, 220 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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