Menahan Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Menahan Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 23, 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 Menahan Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (70) and food nearby (82). Street crime (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Menahan Street, with 119 reports. Across every category, 808 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 95 reports, then residential noise at 82. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 748 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Menahan Street carries 119 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Menahan Street, 73 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 59 violations, then doors at 46. 181 residential buildings on Menahan Street hold the 748 homes on file, 114 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Menahan Street have injured 21 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 26 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 13. A 13 on housing places Menahan Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 21 on the same scale, with quietness at 14. Transit ranks 80 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Menahan Street, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
About 4% of the 748 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 27 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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