Monitor Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Monitor Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 58, 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 Monitor Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (51) and tree cover (75). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Monitor Street name illegal parking than any other category, 124 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 41% of the 305 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (61 reports) and heat and hot water (37). Reports on Monitor Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 62 reports for every 100 homes on Monitor Street.
Inspectors have written 15 Class C violations on Monitor Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 33 violations on file. Pests accounts for 19 more. The housing file lists 140 residential buildings on Monitor Street holding 491 homes, with 67 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.5 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 47 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 15. Monitor Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts parking at 36 and quietness at 31 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Monitor Street ranks 71 on food nearby and 44 on transit. Monitor Street ranks 75 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Monitor Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Monitor Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 51.
14% of the 491 homes recorded on Monitor Street are rent-stabilized, 70 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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