Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Nassau Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Nassau Avenue in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and food nearby (87). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Nassau Avenue, with 80 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Nassau Avenue holds 478 reports, and illegal parking is 17% of it. Commercial noise follows with 74 reports, and graffiti with 59. The file runs across 82 distinct 311 categories in all. About 73 reports per 100 homes sit on Nassau Avenue, counting every category.
Nassau Avenue carries 30 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Nassau Avenue, 57 violations of it. Pests follows at 47 violations, then doors at 15. 180 residential buildings on Nassau Avenue hold the 655 homes on file, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Nassau Avenue holds about 3.6 homes.
NYPD records 51 people injured in crashes on Nassau Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 97, with traffic safety at 67. Nassau Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Housing ranks 91 on the same scale, with quietness at 83. Tree cover ranks 66 and transit 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Nassau Avenue is infrastructure, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 655 homes on file, 47 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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Nassau Avenue runs through Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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