Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Wythe Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.

Calm 54, ranked against busy avenues. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts Wythe Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (93) and food nearby (91). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.

On the record

Commercial noise leads the 311 file on Wythe Avenue, with 268 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among busy avenues. Across every category, 862 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name commercial noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 161 reports, then graffiti at 95. Reports on Wythe Avenue span 79 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Wythe Avenue carries roughly 41 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Wythe Avenue carries 28 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Wythe Avenue, 36 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 34 violations, then doors at 17. 90 residential buildings on Wythe Avenue hold the 2,086 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Wythe Avenue holds about 23 homes.

Reported crashes on Wythe Avenue have injured 142 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 73 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 29. That 29 on traffic safety puts Wythe Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 69 on the same scale, with quietness at 48. Tree cover ranks 83 and transit 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Wythe Avenue, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.

Housing is where Wythe Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 93.

The housing file puts 24% of the 2,086 homes on Wythe Avenue in rent stabilization, 495 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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