New Jersey Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does New Jersey Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts New Jersey Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (65) and tree cover (90). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on New Jersey Avenue, with 112 reports. The whole 311 file on New Jersey Avenue holds 764 reports, and heat and hot water is 15% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 82 reports, then blocked driveway at 77. The file runs across 59 distinct 311 categories in all. About 86 reports per 100 homes sit on New Jersey Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 84 Class C violations on New Jersey Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on New Jersey Avenue, 128 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (69 violations) and plumbing (44). City housing records put 893 homes in 331 residential buildings on New Jersey Avenue, 120 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on New Jersey Avenue holds about 2.7 homes.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on New Jersey Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 55, with housing at 23. New Jersey Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Quietness ranks 53 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 33. The citywide frame puts transit at 74 and food nearby at 53. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on New Jersey Avenue, at 90. About 550 busy avenues make up the band New Jersey Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on New Jersey Avenue is traffic safety, at 65.
About 2% of the 893 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 22 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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