New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does New Lots Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts New Lots Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and tree cover (86). Traffic safety (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on New Lots Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on New Lots Avenue have injured 287 people, and traffic safety ranks 16 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 179 of them. The whole 311 file on New Lots Avenue holds 1,391 reports, and heat and hot water is 13% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 137 reports, then unsanitary condition at 137. In all, 83 distinct 311 categories are represented on New Lots Avenue. Set against the 1,186 homes on file, that is about 117 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on New Lots Avenue carries 236 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 20 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on New Lots Avenue, 219 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 113 more, and doors for 71. The housing file lists 222 residential buildings on New Lots Avenue holding 1,186 homes, with 48 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.3 homes each.
Among busy avenues, New Lots Avenue ranks 81 on infrastructure and 35 on housing. A 35 on housing places New Lots Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 63 and quietness at 58. The citywide frame puts transit at 79 and food nearby at 48. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. New Lots Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is where New Lots Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 98.
The housing file puts 46% of the 1,186 homes on New Lots Avenue in rent stabilization, 551 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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