Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Pennsylvania Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (90) and tree cover (95); traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Pennsylvania Avenue. 822 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 5 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 390 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 357 reports. Tree cover ranks 95, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 62 against every street in the city. Only about 5% of the 5,341 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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