Monroe Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Monroe Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, 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 Monroe Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (53) and tree cover (93). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vehicle noise leads the 311 file on Monroe Street, with 323 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Monroe Street holds 1,653 reports, and vehicle noise is 20% of it. Illegal parking follows with 283 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 216. In all, 81 distinct 311 categories are represented on Monroe Street. The 311 file works out to about 89 reports for every 100 homes on Monroe Street.
HPD has cited 118 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 170 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 133 violations, then paint and lead at 61. City housing records put 1,858 homes in 634 residential buildings on Monroe Street, 221 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Monroe Street holds about 2.9 homes.
Reported crashes on Monroe Street have injured 25 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 53, with quietness at 12. Monroe Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts parking at 26 and housing at 25 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 78 and transit 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Monroe Street ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Monroe Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 53.
The housing file puts 15% of the 1,858 homes on Monroe Street in rent stabilization, 251 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 Street runs through Bed-Stuy, 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).