Vandalia Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Vandalia Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against busy avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Vandalia Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and tree cover (78). Parking (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Vandalia Avenue, with 1,072 reports, and parking ranks 1 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Vandalia Avenue holds 1,277 reports, and illegal parking is 84% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (79 reports) and abandoned vehicle (57). The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. About 115 reports per 100 homes sit on Vandalia Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 25 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 36 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (18 violations) and mold (13). City housing records put 1,110 homes in 153 residential buildings on Vandalia Avenue, 58 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Vandalia Avenue holds about 7.3 homes.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on Vandalia Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 85 among busy avenues and housing ranks 60. Vandalia Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 70 and traffic safety at 66. Against every street in the city, Vandalia Avenue ranks 42 on food nearby and 26 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where Vandalia Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 1,110 homes on file, 353 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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