Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Waverly Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against busy avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Waverly Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (82) and food nearby (87). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Waverly Avenue, with 165 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among busy avenues. Across every category, 439 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. Maintenance or facility is the next most-filed at 82 reports, then blocked driveway at 58. Reports on Waverly Avenue span 75 distinct 311 categories. About 52 reports per 100 homes sit on Waverly Avenue, counting every category.
Waverly Avenue carries 6 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Waverly Avenue is bed bugs, at 41 violations. Pests follows at 27 violations. The housing file lists 133 residential buildings on Waverly Avenue holding 838 homes, with 52 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Waverly Avenue ranks 81 on housing and 30 on parking. That 30 on parking puts Waverly Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 71 and quietness at 57. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 83 and transit at 67. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Waverly Avenue, at 87. Waverly Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Waverly Avenue is traffic safety, at 82.
29% of the 838 homes recorded on Waverly Avenue are rent-stabilized, 240 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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