Orient Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Orient Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Orient Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and food nearby (92). Housing (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Orient Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 23 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 38% of the 61 reports on file here. In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Orient Avenue. Set against the 126 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 15 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Orient Avenue, 12 violations of it. Heat and hot water accounts for 11 more. 39 residential buildings on Orient Avenue hold the 126 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Orient Avenue holds about 3.2 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Orient Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 85 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 44. A 44 on quietness places Orient Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 64 and infrastructure at 56. Against every street in the city, Orient Avenue ranks 77 on transit and 41 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
About 27% of the 126 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 34 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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Orient Avenue runs through East Williamsburg, 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).