S Portland Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does S Portland Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts S Portland Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and transit (99). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on South Portland Avenue, with 393 reports, and parking ranks 4 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on South Portland Avenue holds 646 reports, and illegal parking is 61% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 53 reports, and door and window with 22. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 424 homes on file, that is about 152 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on South Portland Avenue carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on South Portland Avenue is bed bugs, at 38 violations. Pests accounts for 27 more. The housing file lists 99 residential buildings on South Portland Avenue holding 424 homes, with 47 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.3 homes each.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on South Portland Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, South Portland Avenue ranks 32 on traffic safety and 7 on cleanliness. A 7 on cleanliness places South Portland Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 19 and quietness at 15 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 94 and tree cover 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on South Portland Avenue, at 99. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band South Portland Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 424 homes on file, 14 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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