Troy Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Troy Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Troy Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (43) and tree cover (92). Traffic safety (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Troy Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Troy Avenue have injured 190 people, and traffic safety ranks 17 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Troy Avenue, with 400 reports. Across every category, 1,445 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 174 reports, then heat and hot water at 119. In all, 92 distinct 311 categories are represented on Troy Avenue. About 85 reports per 100 homes sit on Troy Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 122 Class C violations on Troy Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Troy Avenue is pests, at 105 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (72 violations) and bed bugs (49). The housing file lists 733 residential buildings on Troy Avenue holding 1,705 homes, with 75 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 43 among busy avenues and parking ranks 30. Troy Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. Infrastructure ranks 37 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 34. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 37. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Troy Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Troy Avenue is quietness, at 43.
About 15% of the 1,705 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 259 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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