Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against busy avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Ralph Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (54) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Ralph Avenue. 530 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 864 of them. Across every category, 2,099 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 737 reports, and commercial noise with 182. The file runs across 98 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,491 homes on file, that is about 141 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 171 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ralph Avenue is pests, at 189 violations. Doors follows at 94 violations, then paint and lead at 79. 401 residential buildings on Ralph Avenue hold the 1,491 homes on file, 112 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Ralph Avenue ranks 46 on housing and 13 on cleanliness. A 13 on cleanliness places Ralph Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 43 and parking at 30 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Ralph Avenue ranks 59 on food nearby and 39 on transit. Ralph Avenue ranks 97 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ralph Avenue is infrastructure, at 54.
The housing file puts 15% of the 1,491 homes on Ralph Avenue in rent stabilization, 221 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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Ralph Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy, Flatlands and Canarsie, 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).