Ovington Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Ovington Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Ovington Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (77) and food nearby (85). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Ovington Avenue, with 248 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,221 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (206 reports) and blocked driveway (104). Reports on Ovington Avenue span 70 distinct 311 categories. About 91 reports per 100 homes sit on Ovington Avenue, counting every category.
Ovington Avenue carries 183 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ovington Avenue is paint and lead, at 105 violations. Pests follows at 85 violations, then doors at 76. PLUTO counts 168 residential buildings and 1,341 homes on Ovington Avenue, with 55 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8 homes each.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 71, with housing at 17. That 17 on housing puts Ovington Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 49 and parking at 29 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 81 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Ovington Avenue, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ovington Avenue is quietness, at 77.
46% of the 1,341 homes recorded on Ovington Avenue are rent-stabilized, 619 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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