Macon Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Macon Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, 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 Macon Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (74) and tree cover (92). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Macon Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 124 of them, and cleanliness ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. Heat and hot water accounts for 9% of the 1,347 reports on file here. Non-emergency police matter follows with 122 reports, and illegal parking with 99. Reports on Macon Street span 81 distinct 311 categories. About 66 reports per 100 homes sit on Macon Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 108 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Macon Street is pests, at 209 violations. Bed bugs follows at 179 violations, then paint and lead at 80. City housing records put 2,043 homes in 652 residential buildings on Macon Street, 276 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Macon Street holds about 3.1 homes.
Reported crashes on Macon Street have injured 15 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Macon Street ranks 71 on traffic safety and 18 on infrastructure. Macon Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 40 and housing at 23. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 87 and transit at 73. Macon Street ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Macon Street is parking, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 2,043 homes on file, 285 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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Macon Street runs through Bed-Stuy and Ocean Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).