Surf Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Surf Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Surf Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (92) and tree cover (91). Traffic safety (40) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Surf Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Surf Avenue have injured 124 people, and traffic safety ranks 40 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Surf Avenue, with 208 reports. Across every category, 656 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 153 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 124. The file runs across 92 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,083 homes on file, that is about 21 reports per 100 homes.
Surf Avenue carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is structure, with 39 violations on file. Pests follows at 36 violations, then bed bugs at 29. The housing file lists 99 residential buildings on Surf Avenue holding 3,083 homes, with 32 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 31 homes to a building.
Among busy avenues, Surf Avenue ranks 89 on housing and 75 on cleanliness. Surf Avenue sits in the strongest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts parking at 88 and quietness at 77 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Surf Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
12% of the 3,083 homes recorded on Surf Avenue are rent-stabilized, 323 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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