Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Wilson Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Wilson Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (89). Quietness (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Wilson Avenue, with 325 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,811 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 283 reports, then commercial noise at 239. The file runs across 82 distinct 311 categories in all. About 113 reports per 100 homes sit on Wilson Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Wilson Avenue carries 214 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Wilson Avenue, 156 violations of it. Doors accounts for 88 more, and heat and hot water for 88. PLUTO counts 282 residential buildings and 1,607 homes on Wilson Avenue, with 100 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 229 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Wilson Avenue ranks 84 on infrastructure and 29 on traffic safety. A 29 on traffic safety places Wilson Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 52 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 31. Tree cover ranks 88 and transit 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Wilson Avenue, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Wilson Avenue is parking, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 1,607 homes on file, 215 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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