W End Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does W End Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts W End Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and transit (53). Food nearby (39) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West End Avenue, with 67 reports. Across every category, 224 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 50 reports, and heat and hot water with 34. In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on West End Avenue. Set against the 812 homes on file, that is about 28 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on West End Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West End Avenue, 15 violations of it. Pests follows at 14 violations. 99 residential buildings on West End Avenue hold the 812 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 8.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on West End Avenue have injured 13 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, West End Avenue ranks 95 on infrastructure and 40 on cleanliness. A 40 on cleanliness places West End Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 93 on the same scale, with parking at 55. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 48 and food nearby at 39. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
25% of the 812 homes recorded on West End Avenue are rent-stabilized, 194 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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W End Avenue runs through Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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