Woodruff Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Woodruff Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Woodruff Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and transit (83). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Woodruff Avenue, with 489 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,189 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 165 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 134. Reports on Woodruff Avenue span 62 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 127 reports for every 100 homes on Woodruff Avenue.
Woodruff Avenue carries 202 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Woodruff Avenue is pests, at 96 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 90 more, and structure for 47. City housing records put 935 homes in 39 residential buildings on Woodruff Avenue, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Woodruff Avenue holds about 24 homes.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Woodruff Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 88, with housing at 16. That 16 on housing puts Woodruff Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 56 and cleanliness at 39 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 82 and tree cover 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Woodruff Avenue ranks 83 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where Woodruff Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 99.
The housing file puts 43% of the 935 homes on Woodruff Avenue in rent stabilization, 398 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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