Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Ridge Boulevard in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against major corridors. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Ridge Boulevard in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (74) and tree cover (89). Housing (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Ridge Boulevard name heat and hot water than any other category, 830 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 62% of the 1,340 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 502 reports, and residential noise with 191. The file runs across 82 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,228 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Ridge Boulevard carries 170 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Ridge Boulevard, 107 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 101 more, and doors for 88. PLUTO counts 275 residential buildings and 2,228 homes on Ridge Boulevard, with 37 walk-ups and 25 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 8.1 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 46 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against major corridors, cleanliness comes in at 56, with parking at 20. That 20 on parking puts Ridge Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Infrastructure ranks 48 on the same scale, with quietness at 39. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 87 and transit at 59. Ridge Boulevard ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ridge Boulevard is traffic safety, at 74.
About 37% of the 2,228 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 820 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.
Nearest streets in Brooklyn
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- Bay Ridge Avenue, Brooklyn
Ridge Boulevard runs through Bay Ridge, 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).