Ridgewood Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Ridgewood Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Ridgewood Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (63) and tree cover (82). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Ridgewood Avenue, with 368 reports, and parking ranks 16 among busy avenues. Across every category, 926 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (151 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (123). The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Ridgewood Avenue carries roughly 118 reports per 100 of them.
Ridgewood Avenue carries 20 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Ridgewood Avenue, 56 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 55 more. The housing file lists 327 residential buildings on Ridgewood Avenue holding 786 homes, with 88 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 73 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 63 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 21. Ridgewood Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 37 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 25. Against every street in the city, Ridgewood Avenue ranks 73 on transit and 65 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Ridgewood Avenue, at 82. Ridgewood Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where Ridgewood Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 63.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 786 homes on file, 59 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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