Lefferts Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Lefferts Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Lefferts Place in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (81) and food nearby (86). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Lefferts Place, with 100 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 459 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name heat and hot water. Plumbing is the next most-filed at 56 reports, then door and window at 50. In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lefferts Place. The 311 file works out to about 64 reports for every 100 homes on Lefferts Place.
Lefferts Place carries 77 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lefferts Place, 79 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 59 violations, then paint and lead at 44. 139 residential buildings on Lefferts Place hold the 715 homes on file, 84 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.1 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Lefferts Place ranks 53 on quietness and 17 on housing. That 17 on housing puts Lefferts Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 50 and infrastructure at 23 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Lefferts Place ranks 79 on transit and 69 on tree cover. Lefferts Place ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Lefferts Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lefferts Place is traffic safety, at 81.
24% of the 715 homes recorded on Lefferts Place are rent-stabilized, 168 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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