Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 54, 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 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (90) and tree cover (95). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Pennsylvania Avenue. 822 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 5 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Pennsylvania Avenue, with 357 reports. Across every category, 2,112 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (297 reports) and residential noise (172). In all, 86 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pennsylvania Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 40 reports for every 100 homes on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The HPD file on Pennsylvania Avenue carries 396 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Pennsylvania Avenue is pests, at 270 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 207 more, and structure for 190. PLUTO counts 242 residential buildings and 5,341 homes on Pennsylvania Avenue, with 120 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Pennsylvania Avenue holds about 22 homes.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 87, with housing at 39. A 39 on housing places Pennsylvania Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 85 on the same scale, with parking at 78. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 55 and transit at 52. Pennsylvania Avenue ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 5% of the 5,341 homes on file, 243 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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Pennsylvania Avenue runs through Spring Creek, East New York & New Lots and East New York, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).