Narrows Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Narrows Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Narrows Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (87) and tree cover (85). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Narrows Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 189 of them. The whole 311 file on Narrows Avenue holds 318 reports, and illegal parking is 59% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 24 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 12. The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Narrows Avenue carries roughly 69 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Narrows Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 171 residential buildings on Narrows Avenue holding 460 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Narrows Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Narrows Avenue ranks 56 on quietness and 14 on parking. That 14 on parking puts Narrows Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 54 and cleanliness at 28 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 38 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Narrows Avenue, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Narrows Avenue is housing, at 87.
About 2% of the 460 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 7 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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