Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Sutter Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sutter Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (77) and tree cover (93). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Sutter Avenue. 503 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Sutter Avenue, with 259 reports. Across every category, 1,494 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 205 reports, and blocked driveway with 110. In all, 85 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sutter Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Sutter Avenue carries roughly 109 reports per 100 of them.
Sutter Avenue carries 211 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 198 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (93 violations) and doors (76). The housing file lists 278 residential buildings on Sutter Avenue holding 1,376 homes, with 74 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.9 homes each.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 77, with housing at 41. That 41 on housing puts Sutter Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 52 and quietness at 42 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 69 and food nearby 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Sutter Avenue, at 93. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Sutter Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Sutter Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 77.
14% of the 1,376 homes recorded on Sutter Avenue are rent-stabilized, 183 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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