Remsen Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Remsen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against busy avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Remsen Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (77) and tree cover (84); traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Remsen Avenue. 397 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 114 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Drug activity is the most-filed, with 327 reports. Tree cover ranks 84, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 50 against every street in the city. Only about 5% of the 1,378 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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