Clifton Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Clifton Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, 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 Clifton Place in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (65) and transit (90). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Clifton Place, with 154 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Clifton Place holds 620 reports, and residential noise is 25% of it. Illegal parking follows with 93 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 74. The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,006 homes on file, that is about 62 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 45 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Clifton Place is pests, at 77 violations. Bed bugs follows at 56 violations, then paint and lead at 38. The housing file lists 236 residential buildings on Clifton Place holding 1,006 homes, with 96 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Clifton Place since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Clifton Place ranks 63 on traffic safety and 19 on infrastructure. Clifton Place sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 34 and quietness at 28 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 84 and tree cover 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Clifton Place ranks 90 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Clifton Place is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file puts 10% of the 1,006 homes on Clifton Place in rent stabilization, 95 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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