Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Stuyvesant Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and tree cover (87). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Stuyvesant Avenue, with 112 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among busy avenues. Across every category, 858 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 76 reports, and residential noise with 76. Reports on Stuyvesant Avenue span 72 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 86 reports for every 100 homes on Stuyvesant Avenue.
HPD has cited 119 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Stuyvesant Avenue is pests, at 112 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (80 violations) and doors (36). 258 residential buildings on Stuyvesant Avenue hold the 992 homes on file, 109 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.8 homes each.
NYPD records 129 people injured in crashes on Stuyvesant Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Stuyvesant Avenue ranks 60 on parking and 14 on traffic safety. A 14 on traffic safety places Stuyvesant Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 52 on the same scale, with housing at 26. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Stuyvesant Avenue ranks 87 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where Stuyvesant Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 87.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 992 homes on file, 113 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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Stuyvesant Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy, 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).