Norwood Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Norwood Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Norwood Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (41) and transit (84). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Norwood Avenue, with 72 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Across every category, 299 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 40 reports, then blocked driveway at 39. The file runs across 39 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 277 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
Norwood Avenue carries 6 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Norwood Avenue, 20 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 20 violations. The housing file lists 124 residential buildings on Norwood Avenue holding 277 homes, with 37 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on Norwood Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 28, with parking at 19. That 19 on parking puts Norwood Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 27 and housing at 20. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 72 and food nearby at 69. Norwood Avenue ranks 84 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Norwood Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Norwood Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 41.
Of the 277 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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