Emerson Place, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Emerson Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 15, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Emerson Place in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (55) and food nearby (74). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Emerson Place name street condition than any other category, 42 of them. Street condition accounts for 70% of the 60 reports on file here. Water system is the next most-filed at 11 reports, then blocked driveway at 10. In all, 33 distinct 311 categories are represented on Emerson Place. Divided by the homes on file, Emerson Place carries roughly 120 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Emerson Place holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk.
Among quiet residential streets, Emerson Place ranks 18 on parking and 6 on quietness. That 6 on quietness puts Emerson Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 14 and traffic safety at 10 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Emerson Place ranks 47 on transit and 24 on tree cover. Emerson Place ranks 74 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Emerson Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Emerson Place is housing, at 55.
The housing file puts 94% of the 50 homes on Emerson Place in rent stabilization, 50 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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Emerson Place runs through Clinton Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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