Martense Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Martense Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Martense Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and food nearby (89). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Martense Street, with 372 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 761 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 125 reports, then blocked driveway at 102. In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on Martense Street. About 80 reports per 100 homes sit on Martense Street, counting every category.
Martense Street carries 99 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Martense Street is pests, at 85 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (69 violations) and doors (40). 145 residential buildings on Martense Street hold the 950 homes on file, 51 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Martense Street have injured 14 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 48, with quietness at 18. Martense Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 35 and housing at 20. Transit ranks 79 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. Martense Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
About 48% of the 950 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 453 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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