New Utrecht Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts New Utrecht Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and transit (81). Cleanliness (43) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on New Utrecht Avenue, with 232 reports, and cleanliness ranks 43 among busy avenues. Across every category, 938 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Street condition follows with 89 reports, and heat and hot water with 60. Reports on New Utrecht Avenue span 85 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 739 homes on file, that is about 127 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 78 Class C violations on New Utrecht Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 66 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 32 more, and paint and lead for 12. PLUTO counts 276 residential buildings and 739 homes on New Utrecht Avenue, with 14 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
NYPD records 137 people injured in crashes on New Utrecht Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, New Utrecht Avenue ranks 90 on infrastructure and 54 on traffic safety. A 54 on traffic safety places New Utrecht Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 84 and parking at 81. Food nearby ranks 74 and tree cover 49, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on New Utrecht Avenue, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on New Utrecht Avenue is quietness, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 19% of the 739 homes on file, 141 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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New Utrecht Avenue runs through Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Sunset Park & Borough Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).