Washington Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Washington Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Washington Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (76) and tree cover (96). Cleanliness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Washington Avenue, with 404 reports, and cleanliness ranks 17 among busy avenues. Across every category, 2,259 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to commercial noise (266 reports) and heat and hot water (238). The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,110 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
Washington Avenue carries 183 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Washington Avenue is pests, at 204 violations. Paint and lead follows at 189 violations, then structure at 125. City housing records put 3,110 homes in 392 residential buildings on Washington Avenue, 140 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 21 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.9 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Washington Avenue have injured 243 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Washington Avenue ranks 52 on housing and 30 on traffic safety. A 30 on traffic safety places Washington Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 42 on the same scale, with quietness at 35. Food nearby ranks 84 and transit 72, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Washington Avenue, at 96. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Washington Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Washington Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 74.
41% of the 3,110 homes recorded on Washington Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,248 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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