Porter Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Porter Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.

Calm 29, 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 2% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (66) and transit (23); traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Porter Avenue, with 44 reports. Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, housing ranks 66 among smaller avenues. None of the 52 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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