Clermont Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Clermont Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Clermont Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (65) and tree cover (90). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vehicle noise is the most-filed complaint on Clermont Avenue, with 192 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among busy avenues. Across every category, 696 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name vehicle noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 190 reports, then for hire vehicle complaint at 43. Reports on Clermont Avenue span 74 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Clermont Avenue carries roughly 75 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Clermont Avenue carries 20 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Clermont Avenue is pests, at 73 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (70 violations) and structure (19). PLUTO counts 205 residential buildings and 930 homes on Clermont Avenue, with 100 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.5 homes to a building.
NYPD records 18 people injured in crashes on Clermont Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 49 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 18. That 18 on infrastructure puts Clermont Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 42 on the same scale, with parking at 23. Transit ranks 86 and food nearby 85, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Clermont Avenue is traffic safety, at 65.
About 26% of the 930 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 240 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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