Schenck Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Schenck Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 46, 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 Schenck Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (90) and tree cover (92). Traffic safety (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Schenck Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 76 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 30 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Schenck Avenue, with 122 reports. Across every category, 797 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (115 reports) and illegal parking (107). Reports on Schenck Avenue span 67 distinct 311 categories. About 52 reports per 100 homes sit on Schenck Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 56 Class C violations on Schenck Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Schenck Avenue, 63 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (34 violations) and paint and lead (31). The housing file lists 354 residential buildings on Schenck Avenue holding 1,520 homes, with 50 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.3 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 58 among busy avenues and parking ranks 36. Schenck Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 43 and quietness at 37 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 67 and food nearby 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Schenck Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where Schenck Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
The housing file puts 1% of the 1,520 homes on Schenck Avenue in rent stabilization, 8 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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Schenck Avenue runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York and Cypress Hills, 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).