Shepherd Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Shepherd Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Shepherd Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (90) and tree cover (91). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Shepherd Avenue, with 273 reports, and parking ranks 9 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Shepherd Avenue holds 895 reports, and illegal parking is 31% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (89 reports) and residential noise (66). The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 955 homes on file, that is about 94 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 73 Class C violations on Shepherd Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Shepherd Avenue is pests, at 86 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 37 more, and paint and lead for 27. PLUTO counts 354 residential buildings and 955 homes on Shepherd Avenue, with 88 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Shepherd Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 81 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 32. That 32 on infrastructure puts Shepherd Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 52 and housing at 34. Transit ranks 70 and food nearby 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Shepherd Avenue ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Shepherd Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
About 4% of the 955 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 39 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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