N Portland Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does N Portland Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against busy avenues. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts N Portland Avenue in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (100) and food nearby (68). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on North Portland Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 789 of them, and parking ranks 12 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 49 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 24. Reports on North Portland Avenue span 21 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 885 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on North Portland Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 17 residential buildings and 885 homes on North Portland Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 52 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on North Portland Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, North Portland Avenue ranks 99 on cleanliness and 34 on quietness. North Portland Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 98 and traffic safety at 79 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 61 and tree cover 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on North Portland Avenue, at 68. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is where North Portland Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 100.
None of the 885 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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