Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Metropolitan Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (79) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Metropolitan Avenue, with 415 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,955 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name commercial noise. Illegal parking follows with 315 reports, and heat and hot water with 312. Reports on Metropolitan Avenue span 99 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Metropolitan Avenue carries roughly 89 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 130 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 87 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 68 violations, then paint and lead at 44. 236 residential buildings on Metropolitan Avenue hold the 2,208 homes on file, 105 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Metropolitan Avenue holds about 9.4 homes.
Since 2021, 206 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 57, with traffic safety at 28. A 28 on traffic safety places Metropolitan Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 46 on the same scale, with quietness at 29. Against every street in the city, Metropolitan Avenue ranks 84 on tree cover and 65 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Metropolitan Avenue, at 93. Metropolitan Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is where Metropolitan Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 2,208 homes on file, 591 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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