Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Putnam Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and tree cover (96). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Putnam Avenue, with 478 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Putnam Avenue holds 2,581 reports, and residential noise is 19% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 390 reports, then illegal parking at 244. Reports on Putnam Avenue span 86 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Putnam Avenue carries roughly 76 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 303 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Putnam Avenue is pests, at 361 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (267 violations) and paint and lead (157). PLUTO counts 967 residential buildings and 3,383 homes on Putnam Avenue, with 421 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Putnam Avenue have injured 68 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Putnam Avenue ranks 64 on traffic safety and 23 on quietness. A 23 on quietness places Putnam Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 59 and housing at 27. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 78 and transit at 67. Putnam Avenue ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Putnam Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Putnam Avenue is infrastructure, at 78.
About 8% of the 3,383 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 265 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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Putnam Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, 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).