New York Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does New York Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts New York Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (62) and tree cover (95). Housing (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on New York Avenue, with 867 reports. The whole 311 file on New York Avenue holds 5,098 reports, and residential noise is 17% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 835 reports, and unsanitary condition with 343. The file runs across 90 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 4,416 homes on file, that is about 115 reports per 100 homes.
New York Avenue carries 1,037 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on New York Avenue, 547 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (529 violations) and doors (388). The housing file lists 728 residential buildings on New York Avenue holding 4,416 homes, with 187 walk-ups and 38 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 323 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, New York Avenue ranks 51 on parking and 19 on traffic safety. New York Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 22 and quietness at 20. Food nearby ranks 78 and transit 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on New York Avenue, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where New York Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 62.
Rent stabilization covers about 51% of the 4,416 homes on file, 2,230 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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