Lyme Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Lyme Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 16, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Lyme Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (86) and transit (19). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lyme Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 17 of them. Across every category, 76 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Lyme Avenue span 12 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Lyme Avenue carries roughly 62 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 11 Class C violations on Lyme Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. 61 residential buildings on Lyme Avenue hold the 123 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 84, with parking at 47. Lyme Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 72 and traffic safety at 53. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and tree cover at 7. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 19. Lyme Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Lyme Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 86.
None of the 123 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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