Classon Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Classon Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Classon Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (72) and tree cover (91). Parking (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Classon Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 5,070 of them, and parking ranks 0 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 230 reports, then heat and hot water at 113. Reports on Classon Avenue span 88 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Classon Avenue carries roughly 188 reports per 100 of them.
Classon Avenue carries 97 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Classon Avenue, 101 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (65 violations) and doors (51). PLUTO counts 217 residential buildings and 2,501 homes on Classon Avenue, with 107 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Classon Avenue have injured 162 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 59 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 26. A 26 on traffic safety places Classon Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 46 and cleanliness at 26. Food nearby ranks 84 and transit 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Classon Avenue ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Classon Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Classon Avenue is infrastructure, at 71.
About 17% of the 2,501 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 406 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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