Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Thatford Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.

Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Thatford Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (99) and transit (61). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

Non-emergency police matter leads the 311 file on Thatford Avenue, with 565 reports. After that the file runs to residential noise (190 reports) and blocked driveway (55). The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Thatford Avenue carries roughly 115 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited 20 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Thatford Avenue, 19 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 14 violations. City housing records put 357 homes in 57 residential buildings on Thatford Avenue, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.3 homes each.

Among smaller avenues, Thatford Avenue ranks 94 on infrastructure and 15 on housing. A 15 on housing places Thatford Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 80 on the same scale, with parking at 35. Against every street in the city, Thatford Avenue ranks 59 on food nearby and 56 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 61. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Thatford Avenue is scored inside.

Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.

Rent stabilization covers about 40% of the 357 homes on file, 144 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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