Madison Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Madison Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, 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 Madison Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (56) and tree cover (96). Housing (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Madison Street name residential noise than any other category, 311 of them. Residential noise accounts for 14% of the 2,173 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (205 reports) and illegal parking (148). In all, 91 distinct 311 categories are represented on Madison Street. About 83 reports per 100 homes sit on Madison Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 286 Class C violations on Madison Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Madison Street is pests, at 370 violations. Bed bugs follows at 216 violations, then paint and lead at 185. PLUTO counts 778 residential buildings and 2,604 homes on Madison Street, with 338 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Madison Street holds about 3.3 homes.
Reported crashes on Madison Street have injured 36 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Madison Street ranks 51 on traffic safety and 16 on quietness. That 16 on quietness puts Madison Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 37 and cleanliness at 18. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 77 and transit at 68. 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.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Madison Street is parking, at 56.
14% of the 2,604 homes recorded on Madison Street are rent-stabilized, 344 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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