Taaffe Place, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Taaffe Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 67, 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 Taaffe Place in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (39) and food nearby (81). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Taaffe Place, with 119 reports. Across every category, 491 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (39 reports) and heat and hot water (26). The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 422 homes on file, that is about 116 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Taaffe Place carries 42 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Taaffe Place is pests, at 26 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 18 more, and paint and lead for 10. City housing records put 422 homes in 33 residential buildings on Taaffe Place, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Taaffe Place holds about 13 homes.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Taaffe Place since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 34, with parking at 14. Taaffe Place sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Cleanliness ranks 21 on the same scale, with quietness at 19. The citywide frame puts transit at 66 and tree cover at 49. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Taaffe Place, at 81. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Taaffe Place is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Taaffe Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 39.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 422 homes on file, 17 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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