Clinton Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Clinton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Clinton Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (74) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Clinton Street. Reported crashes here have injured 52 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 27 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Clinton Street is led by non-emergency police matter, with 483 reports. Non-emergency police matter accounts for 50% of the 967 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 419 reports, and residential noise with 87. In all, 86 distinct 311 categories are represented on Clinton Street. About 50 reports per 100 homes sit on Clinton Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Clinton Street carries 60 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Clinton Street is bed bugs, at 84 violations. Pests accounts for 69 more, and heat and hot water for 20. City housing records put 1,948 homes in 329 residential buildings on Clinton Street, 169 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Clinton Street holds about 5.9 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 47 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 30. Clinton Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Housing ranks 43 on the same scale, with parking at 32. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 91 and transit at 84. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
9% of the 1,948 homes recorded on Clinton Street are rent-stabilized, 176 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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