S Portland Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

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 25, 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 (84) and transit (99); parking (5) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on South Portland Avenue, with 393 reports, and parking ranks 5 among smaller avenues. HPD has cited 6 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, infrastructure ranks 84 among smaller avenues. Only about 3% of the 424 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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