Varick Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Varick Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.

Calm 10, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Varick Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (41) and food nearby (79); cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

Street condition is the most-filed complaint on Varick Avenue, with 22 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among smaller avenues. Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, housing ranks 41 among smaller avenues. None of the 23 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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