Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Rochester Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Rochester Avenue in the bottom 24% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and transit (76); traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Rochester Avenue. 141 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among smaller avenues. HPD has cited 147 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 30 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 106 reports. Infrastructure ranks 80, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 75 against every street in the city. About 40% of the 493 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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