Montauk Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Montauk Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Montauk Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (58) and tree cover (87). Street crime (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Montauk Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 110 of them. Blocked driveway accounts for 23% of the 480 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 94 reports, then heat and hot water at 76. Reports on Montauk Avenue span 58 distinct 311 categories. About 86 reports per 100 homes sit on Montauk Avenue, counting every category.
Montauk Avenue carries 56 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 101 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 63 more, and bed bugs for 38. 220 residential buildings on Montauk Avenue hold the 559 homes on file, 61 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 57 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 17. A 17 on cleanliness places Montauk Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 36 on the same scale, with housing at 24. Transit ranks 52 and food nearby 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Montauk Avenue, at 87. Montauk Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Montauk Avenue is traffic safety, at 58.
6% of the 559 homes recorded on Montauk Avenue are rent-stabilized, 35 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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