Rochester Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Rochester Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 21, 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 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (80) and transit (76). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Rochester Avenue. 141 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Rochester Avenue, with 106 reports. Across every category, 646 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition follows with 49 reports, and illegal parking with 43. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on Rochester Avenue. About 131 reports per 100 homes sit on Rochester Avenue, counting every category.
Rochester Avenue carries 148 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 30 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Rochester Avenue is paint and lead, at 79 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (74 violations) and doors (40). The housing file lists 70 residential buildings on Rochester Avenue holding 493 homes, with 24 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 79, with housing at 2. Rochester Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Quietness ranks 20 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 10. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and tree cover at 72. Rochester Avenue ranks 76 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
40% of the 493 homes recorded on Rochester Avenue are rent-stabilized, 194 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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Rochester Avenue runs through Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy, 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).