Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Tompkins Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and tree cover (87). Traffic safety (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Tompkins Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 178 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 30 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Tompkins Avenue, with 241 reports. Across every category, 1,288 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (190 reports) and illegal parking (130). Reports on Tompkins Avenue span 77 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Tompkins Avenue carries roughly 63 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Tompkins Avenue carries 159 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Tompkins Avenue is pests, at 115 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (75 violations) and bed bugs (56). 212 residential buildings on Tompkins Avenue hold the 2,056 homes on file, 80 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9.7 homes each.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 92, with housing at 46. That 46 on housing puts Tompkins Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 57 and quietness at 50 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 77 and transit 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Tompkins Avenue, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Tompkins Avenue is parking, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 2,056 homes on file, 217 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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