Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Pitkin Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Pitkin Avenue. 508 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Pitkin Avenue, with 214 reports. Across every category, 1,719 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 12% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 165 reports, and illegal parking with 158. Reports on Pitkin Avenue span 90 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Pitkin Avenue carries roughly 94 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 233 Class C violations on Pitkin Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Pitkin Avenue, 239 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (142 violations) and doors (98). PLUTO counts 324 residential buildings and 1,833 homes on Pitkin Avenue, with 99 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 77 among busy avenues and housing ranks 44. That 44 on housing puts Pitkin Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 68 and cleanliness at 57 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 79 and food nearby 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Pitkin Avenue, at 91. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Pitkin Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Pitkin Avenue is parking, at 90.
23% of the 1,833 homes recorded on Pitkin Avenue are rent-stabilized, 419 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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Pitkin Avenue runs through East New York, Brownsville and East New York & City Line, 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).