Sheridan Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Sheridan Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sheridan Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (63) and tree cover (71). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Sheridan Avenue, with 67 reports, and parking ranks 11 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 339 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 64 reports, then residential noise at 35. Reports on Sheridan Avenue span 52 distinct 311 categories. About 89 reports per 100 homes sit on Sheridan Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 13 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Sheridan Avenue is pests, at 22 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 20 more. PLUTO counts 149 residential buildings and 381 homes on Sheridan Avenue, with 48 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Sheridan Avenue ranks 43 on cleanliness and 19 on housing. Sheridan Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts traffic safety at 37 and quietness at 22 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 63 and transit 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Sheridan Avenue, at 71. Sheridan Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 63.
5% of the 381 homes recorded on Sheridan Avenue are rent-stabilized, 19 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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Sheridan Avenue runs through East New York & City Line, 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).