Skillman Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Skillman Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against busy avenues. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Skillman Avenue in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (90) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Skillman Avenue, with 32 reports, and cleanliness ranks 17 among busy avenues. Across every category, 290 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 27 reports, and blocked driveway with 26. Reports on Skillman Avenue span 59 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 48 reports for every 100 homes on Skillman Avenue.
The HPD file on Skillman Avenue carries 13 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Skillman Avenue, 32 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 20 violations. The housing file lists 123 residential buildings on Skillman Avenue holding 610 homes, with 70 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5 homes each.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on Skillman Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 87 among busy avenues and housing ranks 53. Skillman Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on housing. Traffic safety ranks 76 on the same scale, with parking at 63. Against every street in the city, Skillman Avenue ranks 85 on transit and 68 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Skillman Avenue, at 92. Skillman Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
13% of the 610 homes recorded on Skillman Avenue are rent-stabilized, 75 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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Skillman Avenue runs through East Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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