Newkirk Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Newkirk Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Newkirk Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and tree cover (84). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Newkirk Avenue, with 520 reports. The whole 311 file on Newkirk Avenue holds 2,594 reports, and heat and hot water is 20% of it. Residential noise follows with 297 reports, and illegal parking with 151. Reports on Newkirk Avenue span 83 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,722 homes on file, that is about 151 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 555 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 32 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Newkirk Avenue is paint and lead, at 377 violations. Pests follows at 371 violations, then structure at 178. 188 residential buildings on Newkirk Avenue hold the 1,722 homes on file, 54 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 14 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 9.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 50 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 70 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 6. Newkirk Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 54 and quietness at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 72 and transit at 71. Newkirk Avenue ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Newkirk Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Newkirk Avenue is infrastructure, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 57% of the 1,722 homes on file, 989 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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Newkirk Avenue runs through Flatbush, Ditmas Park & Parkville, East Flatbush & Erasmus and Flatbush, 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).