Varick Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
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 (42) and food nearby (79). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Varick Avenue name street condition than any other category, 22 of them, and cleanliness ranks 0 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 66 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name street condition. After that the file runs to encampment (16 reports) and graffiti (10). Reports on Varick Avenue span 27 distinct 311 categories. About 287 reports per 100 homes sit on Varick Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Varick Avenue. 3 residential buildings on Varick Avenue hold the 23 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Varick Avenue holds about 7.7 homes.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on Varick Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 17 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 0. A 0 on infrastructure places Varick Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 13 and traffic safety at 1 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Varick Avenue ranks 57 on transit and 0 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Varick Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Varick Avenue is housing, at 42.
None of the 23 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Varick Avenue runs through East Williamsburg, 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).