Montague Street, Brooklyn NYC — Heights Main Street | 2026
Montague Street is Brooklyn Heights' charming main drag. Cafes, shops, and Promenade access. See safety and noise scores.
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, 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 Montague Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and transit (88). Quietness (56) is the weak spot.
On the record
Real time enforcement leads the 311 file on Montague Street, with 68 reports. The whole 311 file on Montague Street holds 397 reports, and real time enforcement is 17% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 52 reports, and illegal parking with 52. The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,005 homes on file, that is about 40 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 37 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Montague Street, 27 violations of it. Heat and hot water follows at 24 violations, then doors at 21. 47 residential buildings on Montague Street hold the 1,005 homes on file, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 21 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Montague Street ranks 80 on parking and 56 on housing. That 56 on housing puts Montague Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 58 and infrastructure at 56 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 83 and tree cover 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Montague Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 1,005 homes on file, 105 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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Montague Street 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).