Patchen Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Patchen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Patchen Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and transit (78). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Patchen Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 103 of them, and cleanliness ranks 14 among busy avenues. Residential noise accounts for 12% of the 826 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 63 reports, then illegal parking at 61. Reports on Patchen Avenue span 67 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,570 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 139 Class C violations on Patchen Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 76 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 68 more, and doors for 39. The housing file lists 132 residential buildings on Patchen Avenue holding 1,570 homes, with 59 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Since 2021, 80 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 94, with traffic safety at 36. A 36 on traffic safety places Patchen Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 52 and housing at 37. Food nearby ranks 78 and tree cover 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
The housing file puts 17% of the 1,570 homes on Patchen Avenue in rent stabilization, 270 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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