Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Parkside Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Parkside Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (60) and tree cover (86). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Parkside Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 362 of them, and cleanliness ranks 1 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water accounts for 20% of the 1,833 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 174 reports, then illegal parking at 138. The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,380 homes on file, that is about 133 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 306 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 182 violations on file. Pests follows at 156 violations, then doors at 130. The housing file lists 79 residential buildings on Parkside Avenue holding 1,380 homes, with 30 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
Reported crashes on Parkside Avenue have injured 89 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 25 among busy avenues and housing ranks 9. A 9 on housing places Parkside Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 22 on the same scale, with quietness at 10. Against every street in the city, Parkside Avenue ranks 82 on transit and 82 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. Parkside Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Parkside Avenue is parking, at 60.
64% of the 1,380 homes recorded on Parkside Avenue are rent-stabilized, 883 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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