Clay Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
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 (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Clay Street, with 191 reports, and parking ranks 6 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 380 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 28 reports, and heat and hot water with 23. Reports on Clay Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Clay Street carries roughly 179 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 9 Class C violations on Clay Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Clay Street, 17 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 10 violations. PLUTO counts 32 residential buildings and 212 homes on Clay Street, with 22 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.6 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Clay Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Clay Street ranks 25 on cleanliness and 7 on quietness. A 7 on quietness places Clay Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 18 and housing at 18 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Clay Street ranks 62 on transit and 57 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Clay Street, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Clay Street is traffic safety, at 99.
The housing file puts 25% of the 212 homes on Clay Street in rent stabilization, 54 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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Clay Street runs through Greenpoint, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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