Monroe Place, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Monroe Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Monroe Place in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and transit (96). Parking (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Monroe Place, with 125 reports, and parking ranks 24 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 141 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 89% of them name illegal parking. The file runs across 31 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Monroe Place carries roughly 45 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Monroe Place. HPD's most-cited category on Monroe Place is pests, at 22 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 13 more, and paint and lead for 12. City housing records put 314 homes in 32 residential buildings on Monroe Place, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9.8 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Monroe Place since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 70 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 46. Monroe Place sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Housing ranks 67 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 53. Against every street in the city, Monroe Place ranks 89 on food nearby and 47 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Monroe Place, at 96. Monroe Place is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Monroe Place is traffic safety, at 94.
The housing file puts 6% of the 314 homes on Monroe Place in rent stabilization, 18 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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Monroe Place runs through Brooklyn Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).