Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against major corridors. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Nostrand Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and tree cover (99). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Nostrand Avenue, with 947 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among major corridors. Across every category, 8,649 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 892 reports, then commercial noise at 791. In all, 119 distinct 311 categories are represented on Nostrand Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Nostrand Avenue carries roughly 95 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1,374 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Nostrand Avenue is pests, at 767 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 661 more, and doors for 404. City housing records put 9,075 homes in 879 residential buildings on Nostrand Avenue, 160 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 42 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Nostrand Avenue holds about 10 homes.
NYPD records 989 people injured in crashes on Nostrand Avenue since 2021.
Among major corridors, Nostrand Avenue ranks 69 on infrastructure and 14 on housing. Nostrand Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on housing. The card also puts traffic safety at 48 and quietness at 25 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, Nostrand Avenue ranks 78 on food nearby and 62 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Nostrand Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Nostrand Avenue is parking, at 72.
The housing file puts 25% of the 9,075 homes on Nostrand Avenue in rent stabilization, 2,292 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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Nostrand Avenue runs through Sheepshead Bay, Bed-Stuy and East Flatbush & Erasmus, 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).