Voorhies Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Voorhies Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Voorhies Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and food nearby (80). Parking (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Voorhies Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 269 of them, and parking ranks 20 among busy avenues. Across every category, 606 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (86 reports) and blocked driveway (61). In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Voorhies Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Voorhies Avenue carries roughly 64 reports per 100 of them.
Voorhies Avenue carries 35 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Voorhies Avenue is paint and lead, at 30 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (23 violations) and doors (19). The housing file lists 158 residential buildings on Voorhies Avenue holding 944 homes, with 16 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6 homes to a building.
NYPD records 50 people injured in crashes on Voorhies Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Voorhies Avenue ranks 76 on cleanliness and 36 on traffic safety. A 36 on traffic safety places Voorhies Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 66 and infrastructure at 46 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 54 and transit 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Voorhies Avenue, at 80. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Voorhies Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
The housing file puts 26% of the 944 homes on Voorhies Avenue in rent stabilization, 245 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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