Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Rockaway Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Rockaway Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (82) and tree cover (86). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Rockaway Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 477 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 7 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Rockaway Avenue, with 150 reports. Across every category, 1,506 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 142 reports, then residential noise at 120. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on Rockaway Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Rockaway Avenue carries 127 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Rockaway Avenue, 124 violations of it. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (90 violations) and doors (79). City housing records put 2,788 homes in 209 residential buildings on Rockaway Avenue, 41 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 57 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 39. A 39 on cleanliness places Rockaway Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 54 on the same scale, with quietness at 49. Against every street in the city, Rockaway Avenue ranks 69 on transit and 53 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Rockaway Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Rockaway Avenue is parking, at 82.
About 9% of the 2,788 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 232 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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Rockaway Avenue runs through Brownsville, Ocean Hill and East New York & New Lots, 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).