Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Rockaway Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 42, 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 top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (82) and tree cover (86); traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Rockaway Avenue. 477 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 7 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 153 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 150 reports. Tree cover ranks 86, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 68 against every street in the city. Only about 9% of the 2,788 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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