Stanley Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Stanley Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Stanley Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (86) and tree cover (85). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Stanley Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 172 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Stanley Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 116 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 587 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 104 reports, and heat and hot water with 57. Reports on Stanley Avenue span 66 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Stanley Avenue carries roughly 40 reports per 100 of them.
Stanley Avenue carries 46 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 61 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 45 violations, then doors at 36. The housing file lists 57 residential buildings on Stanley Avenue holding 1,451 homes, with 20 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 25 homes each.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 74, with quietness at 33. That 33 on quietness puts Stanley Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 69 and cleanliness at 46. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 45 and transit at 41. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where Stanley Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 86.
17% of the 1,451 homes recorded on Stanley Avenue are rent-stabilized, 240 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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