Loring Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Loring Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Loring Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and tree cover (63). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Loring Avenue, with 221 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 986 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 192 reports, and illegal dumping with 24. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 961 homes on file, that is about 103 reports per 100 homes.
Loring Avenue carries 12 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 17 violations on file. Doors follows at 11 violations. PLUTO counts 25 residential buildings and 961 homes on Loring Avenue, with 12 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Loring Avenue holds about 38 homes.
Reported crashes on Loring Avenue have injured 24 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Loring Avenue ranks 88 on housing and 17 on parking. Loring Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 81 and traffic safety at 51. The citywide frame puts transit at 40 and food nearby at 31. Loring Avenue ranks 63 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Loring Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Loring Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 94.
The housing file puts 10% of the 961 homes on Loring Avenue in rent stabilization, 100 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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