Norman Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Norman Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Norman Avenue in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and food nearby (84). Infrastructure (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Norman Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 164 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 31% of the 532 reports on file here. Water system is the next most-filed at 32 reports, then blocked driveway at 31. The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 598 homes on file, that is about 89 reports per 100 homes.
Norman Avenue carries 29 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Norman Avenue is bed bugs, at 33 violations. Pests follows at 32 violations, then doors at 10. 123 residential buildings on Norman Avenue hold the 598 homes on file, 61 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Norman Avenue holds about 4.9 homes.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 78 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 28. That 28 on cleanliness puts Norman Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 66 and parking at 60 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 78 and transit 47, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Norman Avenue, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Norman Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 78.
Rent stabilization covers about 19% of the 598 homes on file, 110 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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