Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against busy avenues. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Clinton Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (92) and tree cover (91). Housing (41) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Clinton Avenue, with 241 reports. The whole 311 file on Clinton Avenue holds 951 reports, and heat and hot water is 25% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 147 reports, then illegal parking at 126. In all, 86 distinct 311 categories are represented on Clinton Avenue. About 34 reports per 100 homes sit on Clinton Avenue, counting every category.
Clinton Avenue carries 182 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 90 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 60 more, and doors for 51. City housing records put 2,769 homes in 178 residential buildings on Clinton Avenue, 98 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 17 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
Reported crashes on Clinton Avenue have injured 49 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 80 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 55. Clinton Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 80 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 68. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 85 and transit at 72. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Clinton Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Clinton Avenue is parking, at 92.
21% of the 2,769 homes recorded on Clinton Avenue are rent-stabilized, 593 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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Clinton Avenue runs through Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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