Remsen Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Remsen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 30, 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 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (82) and tree cover (84). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Remsen Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 397 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Remsen Avenue is led by drug activity, with 327 reports. Drug activity accounts for 24% of the 1,338 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 282 reports, and commercial noise with 172. Reports on Remsen Avenue span 81 distinct 311 categories. About 97 reports per 100 homes sit on Remsen Avenue, counting every category.
Remsen Avenue carries 174 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 90 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 41 more, and plumbing for 33. The housing file lists 590 residential buildings on Remsen Avenue holding 1,378 homes, with 53 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 39, with quietness at 19. Remsen Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 25 on the same scale, with parking at 21. Against every street in the city, Remsen Avenue ranks 45 on food nearby and 39 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
About 5% of the 1,378 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 71 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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