Park Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Park Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against major corridors. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Park Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (40) and food nearby (74). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Park Avenue, with 655 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among major corridors. The whole 311 file on Park Avenue holds 931 reports, and illegal parking is 70% of it. Residential noise follows with 176 reports, and street condition with 82. The file runs across 79 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 991 homes on file, that is about 94 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on Park Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Park Avenue, 29 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (22 violations) and doors (11). PLUTO counts 122 residential buildings and 991 homes on Park Avenue, with 38 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on Park Avenue have injured 238 people since 2021.
Among major corridors, Park Avenue ranks 34 on infrastructure and 11 on parking. That 11 on parking puts Park Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, quietness sits at 16 and traffic safety at 12. Transit ranks 69 and tree cover 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Park Avenue ranks 74 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 40.
10% of the 991 homes recorded on Park Avenue are rent-stabilized, 101 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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