Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Neptune Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Neptune Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (83) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Neptune Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Neptune Avenue have injured 345 people, and traffic safety ranks 19 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Neptune Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 1,061 reports. Across every category, 2,044 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 165 reports, then blocked driveway at 91. The file runs across 88 distinct 311 categories in all. About 57 reports per 100 homes sit on Neptune Avenue, counting every category.
Neptune Avenue carries 146 Class C violations on its HPD file, 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 Neptune Avenue, 122 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 61 violations, then paint and lead at 61. 262 residential buildings on Neptune Avenue hold the 3,608 homes on file, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Neptune Avenue ranks 66 on housing and 32 on parking. A 32 on parking places Neptune Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 46 and infrastructure at 33. Transit ranks 51 and food nearby 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Neptune Avenue, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
About 11% of the 3,608 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 405 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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