Sheffield Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Sheffield Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sheffield Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (65) and tree cover (89). Street crime (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Sheffield Avenue name unsanitary condition than any other category, 131 of them. Unsanitary condition accounts for 17% of the 752 reports on file here. Door and window follows with 128 reports, and heat and hot water with 117. Reports on Sheffield Avenue span 66 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 88 reports for every 100 homes on Sheffield Avenue.
The HPD file on Sheffield Avenue carries 107 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Sheffield Avenue, 112 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 77 more, and bed bugs for 69. The housing file lists 190 residential buildings on Sheffield Avenue holding 850 homes, with 86 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.5 homes to a building.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on Sheffield Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Sheffield Avenue ranks 48 on infrastructure and 21 on housing. That 21 on housing puts Sheffield Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 46 and cleanliness at 32 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Sheffield Avenue ranks 87 on transit and 55 on food nearby. Sheffield Avenue ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Sheffield Avenue is traffic safety, at 65.
The housing file puts 18% of the 850 homes on Sheffield Avenue in rent stabilization, 156 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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