Balfour Place, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Balfour Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 38, 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 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (73) and transit (67). Tree cover (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Balfour Place. Divided by the homes on file, Balfour Place carries roughly 75 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Balfour Place carries 8 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 27 residential buildings on Balfour Place hold the 71 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Balfour Place holds about 2.6 homes.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 57, with infrastructure at 5. A 5 on infrastructure places Balfour Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 43 and housing at 15. Against every street in the city, Balfour Place ranks 48 on food nearby and 2 on tree cover. Balfour Place ranks 67 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Balfour Place is cleanliness, at 73.
The housing file puts 54% of the 71 homes on Balfour Place in rent stabilization, 38 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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