Vital Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Vital Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 88, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Vital Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (100) and food nearby (35). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Vital Avenue, with 84 reports. After that the file runs to illegal parking (61 reports) and blocked driveway (15). The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 451 homes on file, that is about 17 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 12 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is heat and hot water, with 11 violations on file.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 99 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 49. That 49 on housing puts Vital Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 97 on the same scale, with parking at 55. Against every street in the city, Vital Avenue ranks 20 on transit and 0 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 35. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Vital Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Vital Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 100.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 451 on Vital Avenue.
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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Vital Avenue runs through Spring Creek, 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).