Throop Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Throop Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Throop Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and tree cover (84). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Throop Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Throop Avenue have injured 215 people, and traffic safety ranks 10 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 166 of them. Across every category, 795 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 75 reports, and heat and hot water with 67. Reports on Throop Avenue span 77 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,477 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 78 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Throop Avenue is pests, at 60 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (48 violations) and doors (24). 138 residential buildings on Throop Avenue hold the 1,477 homes on file, 71 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 63 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 28. That 28 on cleanliness puts Throop Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 46 on the same scale, with housing at 45. Transit ranks 76 and food nearby 72, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Throop Avenue is quietness, at 76.
About 22% of the 1,477 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 290 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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