Balfour Place, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Balfour Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.

Calm 42, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Balfour Place in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (74) and transit (66); tree cover (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

HPD has cited 7 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 74 among quiet residential streets. About 54% of the 71 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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