Ocean View Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Ocean View Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Ocean View Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (74) and food nearby (67). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Ocean View Avenue, with 81 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Ocean View Avenue holds 403 reports, and illegal parking is 20% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 61 reports, and heat and hot water with 54. In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ocean View Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 88 reports for every 100 homes on Ocean View Avenue.
HPD has cited 19 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 25 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 22 violations. PLUTO counts 128 residential buildings and 456 homes on Ocean View Avenue, with 24 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Ocean View Avenue have injured 23 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 48, with parking at 16. That 16 on parking puts Ocean View Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 40 and infrastructure at 30. The citywide frame puts transit at 38 and tree cover at 38. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Ocean View Avenue, at 67. Ocean View Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Ocean View Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 74.
The housing file puts 35% of the 456 homes on Ocean View Avenue in rent stabilization, 159 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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