Van Sinderen Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Van Sinderen Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Van Sinderen Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (65) and transit (86). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal dumping leads the 311 file on Van Sinderen Avenue, with 71 reports. The whole 311 file on Van Sinderen Avenue holds 228 reports, and illegal dumping is 31% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 63 reports, and illegal parking with 41. Reports on Van Sinderen Avenue span 35 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Van Sinderen Avenue carries roughly 154 reports per 100 of them.
Van Sinderen Avenue carries 11 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 17 residential buildings and 148 homes on Van Sinderen Avenue, with 14 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 8.7 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Van Sinderen Avenue have injured 10 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Van Sinderen Avenue ranks 33 on cleanliness and 4 on parking. That 4 on parking puts Van Sinderen Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 18 and traffic safety at 8. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 31 and food nearby at 27. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Van Sinderen Avenue is quietness, at 65.
The housing file puts 68% of the 148 homes on Van Sinderen Avenue in rent stabilization, 101 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 Sinderen Avenue runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York and Ocean Hill, 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).