Williams Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Williams Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Williams Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (90). Street crime (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Williams Avenue, with 708 reports. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 57 reports, then blocked driveway at 54. In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Williams Avenue. About 56 reports per 100 homes sit on Williams Avenue, counting every category.
Williams Avenue carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 66 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (32 violations) and paint and lead (30). The housing file lists 195 residential buildings on Williams Avenue holding 1,236 homes, with 60 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 47 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 82, with quietness at 15. That 15 on quietness puts Williams Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 50 and traffic safety at 38 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 78 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. Williams Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
The housing file puts 18% of the 1,236 homes on Williams Avenue in rent stabilization, 224 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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