Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Schenectady Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Schenectady Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (67) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Schenectady Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Schenectady Avenue have injured 289 people, and traffic safety ranks 9 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 219 of them. Across every category, 1,508 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 183 reports, then blocked driveway at 129. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on Schenectady Avenue. Set against the 1,895 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
Schenectady Avenue carries 219 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 182 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 150 violations, then doors at 116. The housing file lists 793 residential buildings on Schenectady Avenue holding 1,895 homes, with 82 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Schenectady Avenue ranks 60 on quietness and 17 on cleanliness. That 17 on cleanliness puts Schenectady Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 60 and housing at 29. Against every street in the city, Schenectady Avenue ranks 69 on food nearby and 40 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. Schenectady Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Schenectady Avenue is parking, at 67.
The housing file puts 26% of the 1,895 homes on Schenectady Avenue in rent stabilization, 490 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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