Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Clarkson Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against busy avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Clarkson Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and tree cover (82). Housing (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Clarkson Avenue, with 466 reports. Across every category, 3,356 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 438 reports, then residential noise at 261. In all, 96 distinct 311 categories are represented on Clarkson Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 97 reports for every 100 homes on Clarkson Avenue.
The HPD file on Clarkson Avenue carries 517 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Clarkson Avenue, 358 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (265 violations) and doors (247). The housing file lists 199 residential buildings on Clarkson Avenue holding 3,476 homes, with 38 walk-ups and 25 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
Reported crashes on Clarkson Avenue have injured 151 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 71 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 30. A 30 on quietness places Clarkson Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 42 and cleanliness at 32. Against every street in the city, Clarkson Avenue ranks 69 on food nearby and 53 on transit. Clarkson Avenue ranks 82 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where Clarkson Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 84.
About 58% of the 3,476 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,933 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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