Van Siclen Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against busy avenues. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Van Siclen Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (90) and tree cover (92). Traffic safety (44) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Van Siclen Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 105 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 44 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Van Siclen Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 395 reports. Across every category, 1,069 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (70 reports) and residential noise (66). In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on Van Siclen Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 34 reports for every 100 homes on Van Siclen Avenue.
Inspectors have written 99 Class C violations on Van Siclen Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Van Siclen Avenue is pests, at 119 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 50 more, and paint and lead for 46. 368 residential buildings on Van Siclen Avenue hold the 3,184 homes on file, 82 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 8.7 homes each.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 79, with housing at 61. That 61 on housing puts Van Siclen Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 65 on the same scale, with parking at 63. The citywide frame puts transit at 45 and food nearby at 45. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Van Siclen Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Van Siclen Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
3% of the 3,184 homes recorded on Van Siclen Avenue are rent-stabilized, 111 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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Van Siclen Avenue runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York and Spring Creek, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).