Riverdale Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Riverdale Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Riverdale Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and tree cover (84). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Riverdale Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Riverdale Avenue have injured 129 people, and traffic safety ranks 3 among busy avenues. Vehicle noise draws more reports than anything else here, 248 of them. The whole 311 file on Riverdale Avenue holds 641 reports, and vehicle noise is 39% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (86 reports) and unsanitary condition (58). The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. About 102 reports per 100 homes sit on Riverdale Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 174 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 28 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Riverdale Avenue, 128 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 92 more, and doors for 78. The housing file lists 79 residential buildings on Riverdale Avenue holding 630 homes, with 43 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 69 among busy avenues and housing ranks 12. That 12 on housing puts Riverdale Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 40 and cleanliness at 34 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Riverdale Avenue ranks 80 on transit and 45 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. Riverdale Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Riverdale Avenue is parking, at 79.
The housing file puts 27% of the 630 homes on Riverdale Avenue in rent stabilization, 172 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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