Skidmore Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Skidmore Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.

Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Skidmore Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (87) and food nearby (51). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Skidmore Avenue.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Skidmore Avenue. City housing records put 62 homes in 21 residential buildings on Skidmore Avenue, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.

Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 66 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 32. Skidmore Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. Infrastructure ranks 66 on the same scale, with quietness at 35. Against every street in the city, Skidmore Avenue ranks 13 on tree cover and 9 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 51. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Skidmore Avenue is parking, at 87.

None of the 62 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

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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