Mcdonald Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Mcdonald Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Mcdonald Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and transit (84). Parking (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Mcdonald Avenue, with 971 reports, and parking ranks 21 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Mcdonald Avenue holds 2,164 reports, and illegal parking is 45% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 135 reports, then consumer complaint at 73. In all, 84 distinct 311 categories are represented on Mcdonald Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Mcdonald Avenue carries roughly 155 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Mcdonald Avenue carries 44 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. 329 residential buildings on Mcdonald Avenue hold the 1,398 homes on file, 77 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.2 homes each.
NYPD records 201 people injured in crashes on Mcdonald Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 86, with traffic safety at 35. Mcdonald Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 53 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 38. Tree cover ranks 77 and food nearby 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. Mcdonald Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
21% of the 1,398 homes recorded on Mcdonald Avenue are rent-stabilized, 296 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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