Union Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Union Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Union Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (81) and transit (91). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Union Avenue, with 131 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among busy avenues. Across every category, 909 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name commercial noise. Graffiti is the next most-filed at 128 reports, then illegal parking at 124. Reports on Union Avenue span 82 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,345 homes on file, that is about 68 reports per 100 homes.
Union Avenue carries 79 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 52 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (48 violations) and doors (24). 104 residential buildings on Union Avenue hold the 1,345 homes on file, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
NYPD records 136 people injured in crashes on Union Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Union Avenue ranks 74 on parking and 19 on traffic safety. Union Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 57 and quietness at 35. Against every street in the city, Union Avenue ranks 91 on food nearby and 55 on tree cover. Union Avenue ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Union Avenue is infrastructure, at 81.
The housing file puts 53% of the 1,345 homes on Union Avenue in rent stabilization, 719 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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