Cleveland Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Cleveland Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cleveland Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (45) and tree cover (86). Street crime (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Cleveland Street name illegal parking than any other category, 192 of them. Across every category, 711 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 91 reports, and heat and hot water with 53. Reports on Cleveland Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Cleveland Street carries roughly 82 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 89 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Cleveland Street, 88 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (53 violations) and heat and hot water (37). The housing file lists 381 residential buildings on Cleveland Street holding 868 homes, with 94 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 22 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 41 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 18. Cleveland Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 28 and parking at 22. Transit ranks 80 and food nearby 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Cleveland Street ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Cleveland Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 45.
The housing file puts 5% of the 868 homes on Cleveland Street in rent stabilization, 42 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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Cleveland Street runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York and Cypress Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).