Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Morgan Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against busy avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Morgan Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (47) and tree cover (70). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Morgan Avenue, with 239 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Morgan Avenue holds 594 reports, and illegal parking is 40% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (92 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (35). The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 441 homes on file, that is about 135 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Morgan Avenue carries 19 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Morgan Avenue, 40 violations of it. Pests accounts for 27 more. PLUTO counts 105 residential buildings and 441 homes on Morgan Avenue, with 77 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Morgan Avenue holds about 4.2 homes.
NYPD records 147 people injured in crashes on Morgan Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Morgan Avenue ranks 28 on quietness and 0 on infrastructure. That 0 on infrastructure puts Morgan Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 11 and traffic safety at 0 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 63 and transit 38, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Morgan Avenue ranks 70 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Morgan Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Morgan Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 47.
About 24% of the 441 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 99 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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Morgan Avenue runs through East Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).