Clay Street, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Clay Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Clay Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and food nearby (84); parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Clay Street, with 191 reports, and parking ranks 5 among quiet residential streets. HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021. On the other side, traffic safety ranks 99 among quiet residential streets. About 25% of the 212 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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