Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does Vanderbilt Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against busy avenues. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Vanderbilt Avenue in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and transit (91). Parking (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Vanderbilt Avenue, with 584 reports, and parking ranks 32 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,337 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to for hire vehicle complaint (125 reports) and blocked driveway (61). Reports on Vanderbilt Avenue span 85 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Vanderbilt Avenue carries roughly 69 reports per 100 of them.
Vanderbilt Avenue carries 43 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 75 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 75 violations, then doors at 21. The housing file lists 290 residential buildings on Vanderbilt Avenue holding 1,939 homes, with 91 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.7 homes each.
Reported crashes on Vanderbilt Avenue have injured 150 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 82 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 34. A 34 on traffic safety places Vanderbilt Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 81 and infrastructure at 80 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 91 and food nearby 87, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Vanderbilt Avenue ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 1,939 homes on file, 265 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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Vanderbilt Avenue runs through Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights and Fort Greene, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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