Saratoga Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Saratoga 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 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Saratoga Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and tree cover (89). Traffic safety (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Saratoga Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 150 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 18 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Saratoga Avenue is led by residential noise, with 120 reports. Residential noise accounts for 13% of the 953 reports on file here. Heat and hot water follows with 70 reports, and illegal parking with 64. Reports on Saratoga Avenue span 76 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,364 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 151 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Saratoga Avenue is pests, at 135 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 77 more, and doors for 64. 418 residential buildings on Saratoga Avenue hold the 1,364 homes on file, 103 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Saratoga Avenue ranks 71 on quietness and 26 on cleanliness. Saratoga Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 57 on the same scale, with housing at 35. Against every street in the city, Saratoga Avenue ranks 66 on transit and 59 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Saratoga Avenue is parking, at 79.
26% of the 1,364 homes recorded on Saratoga Avenue are rent-stabilized, 346 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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