Melrose Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Melrose Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 Melrose Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and food nearby (92). Quietness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Melrose Street name residential noise than any other category, 154 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 636 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (77 reports) and illegal parking (62). The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Melrose Street carries roughly 61 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 76 Class C violations on Melrose Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Melrose Street is pests, at 43 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (31 violations) and bed bugs (25). PLUTO counts 89 residential buildings and 1,039 homes on Melrose Street, with 57 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Melrose Street holds about 12 homes.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Melrose Street ranks 65 on infrastructure and 25 on housing. Melrose Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 48 and cleanliness at 28. Transit ranks 74 and tree cover 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Melrose Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 61% of the 1,039 homes on file, 599 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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