Sunnyside Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Sunnyside Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sunnyside Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and transit (75). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Sunnyside Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 69 of them. Across every category, 291 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 62 reports, and residential noise with 39. In all, 47 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sunnyside Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Sunnyside Avenue carries roughly 96 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 35 Class C violations on Sunnyside Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Sunnyside Avenue, 55 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (37 violations) and plumbing (25). PLUTO counts 120 residential buildings and 304 homes on Sunnyside Avenue, with 14 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Sunnyside Avenue holds about 2.5 homes.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 57, with quietness at 8. Sunnyside Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 36 and cleanliness at 33. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 55 and food nearby at 42. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Sunnyside Avenue, at 75. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Sunnyside Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Sunnyside Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 85.
About 6% of the 304 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 19 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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