Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Prospect Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Prospect Avenue in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (92) and tree cover (86). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Prospect Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 228 of them, and cleanliness ranks 7 among busy avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 40% of the 568 reports on file here. Noise follows with 35 reports, and rodent with 33. The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. About 48 reports per 100 homes sit on Prospect Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Prospect Avenue carries 27 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Prospect Avenue is bed bugs, at 67 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (54 violations) and doors (27). The housing file lists 304 residential buildings on Prospect Avenue holding 1,195 homes, with 127 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on Prospect Avenue have injured 51 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Prospect Avenue ranks 65 on housing and 28 on infrastructure. That 28 on infrastructure puts Prospect Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 58 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 43. Food nearby ranks 82 and transit 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. Prospect Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Prospect Avenue is quietness, at 91.
The housing file puts 11% of the 1,195 homes on Prospect Avenue in rent stabilization, 124 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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