Porter Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Porter Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Porter Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (66) and food nearby (23). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Porter Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 44 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 79% of the 56 reports on file here. Reports on Porter Avenue span 24 distinct 311 categories. About 108 reports per 100 homes sit on Porter Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Porter Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 3 residential buildings and 52 homes on Porter Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on Porter Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Porter Avenue ranks 46 on infrastructure and 6 on cleanliness. A 6 on cleanliness places Porter Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 42 and parking at 14. Tree cover ranks 23 and transit 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 23. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Porter Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 52 on Porter Avenue.
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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Porter Avenue runs through East Williamsburg, 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).