Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Myrtle Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and tree cover (91). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Myrtle Avenue, with 580 reports, and cleanliness ranks 19 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Myrtle Avenue holds 2,798 reports, and illegal parking is 21% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 409 reports, then commercial noise at 257. In all, 107 distinct 311 categories are represented on Myrtle Avenue. About 65 reports per 100 homes sit on Myrtle Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Myrtle Avenue carries 155 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Myrtle Avenue, 147 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (107 violations) and doors (54). City housing records put 4,312 homes in 390 residential buildings on Myrtle Avenue, 68 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 22 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Myrtle Avenue holds about 11 homes.
NYPD records 530 people injured in crashes on Myrtle Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Myrtle Avenue ranks 84 on infrastructure and 27 on traffic safety. That 27 on traffic safety puts Myrtle Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 75 on the same scale, with quietness at 67. Against every street in the city, Myrtle Avenue ranks 86 on food nearby and 85 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
About 31% of the 4,312 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,245 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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