Clara Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Clara Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Clara Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (93) and transit (82). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Clara Street, with 73 reports. Across every category, 243 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (53 reports) and heat and hot water (11). The file runs across 29 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Clara Street carries roughly 190 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Clara Street carries 41 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 32 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Clara Street is pests, at 37 violations. Behind it the file holds plumbing (24 violations) and doors (23). The housing file lists 55 residential buildings on Clara Street holding 128 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Among quiet residential streets, Clara Street ranks 59 on infrastructure and 9 on quietness. A 9 on quietness places Clara Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 29 and traffic safety at 24 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 77 and tree cover 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
The housing file puts 18% of the 128 homes on Clara Street in rent stabilization, 23 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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