Vernon Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Vernon Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Vernon Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (55) and transit (84). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Vernon Avenue, with 176 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,120 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 138 reports, then heat and hot water at 122. In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on Vernon Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 110 reports for every 100 homes on Vernon Avenue.
Vernon Avenue carries 155 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Vernon Avenue, 138 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 104 violations, then paint and lead at 64. The housing file lists 231 residential buildings on Vernon Avenue holding 1,018 homes, with 145 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 25 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 47, with quietness at 10. That 10 on quietness puts Vernon Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 23 on the same scale, with housing at 18. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 77 and food nearby at 73. Vernon Avenue ranks 84 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Vernon Avenue is traffic safety, at 55.
About 19% of the 1,018 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 172 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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