Whitney Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Whitney Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Whitney Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and food nearby (42). Transit (10) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Whitney Avenue, with 13 reports. Reports on Whitney Avenue span 10 distinct 311 categories.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Whitney Avenue. City housing records put 53 homes in 23 residential buildings on Whitney Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Whitney Avenue holds about 2.3 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 78 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 19. That 19 on parking puts Whitney Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 73 and traffic safety at 24. Tree cover ranks 31 and transit 10, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Whitney Avenue ranks 42 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
None of the 53 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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