Stillwell Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Stillwell Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Stillwell Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and tree cover (78). Traffic safety (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Stillwell Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 182 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 11 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Stillwell Avenue, with 254 reports. The whole 311 file on Stillwell Avenue holds 724 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. Consumer complaint follows with 74 reports, and residential noise with 41. Reports on Stillwell Avenue span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 126 reports for every 100 homes on Stillwell Avenue.
HPD has cited 30 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 35 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 33 violations. 157 residential buildings on Stillwell Avenue hold the 575 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Stillwell Avenue holds about 3.7 homes.
Among busy avenues, Stillwell Avenue ranks 75 on quietness and 31 on parking. That 31 on parking puts Stillwell Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 74 and cleanliness at 63 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 77 and food nearby 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Stillwell Avenue ranks 78 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
The housing file puts 15% of the 575 homes on Stillwell Avenue in rent stabilization, 89 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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