Montgomery Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Montgomery Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 74, 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 Montgomery Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (68) and tree cover (91). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Montgomery Street, with 398 reports. Across every category, 1,873 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 190 reports, and illegal parking with 153. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Montgomery Street carries roughly 79 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 357 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Montgomery Street is pests, at 222 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (215 violations) and doors (179). PLUTO counts 340 residential buildings and 2,370 homes on Montgomery Street, with 89 walk-ups and 12 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7 homes each.
NYPD records 41 people injured in crashes on Montgomery Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 61 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 22. A 22 on quietness places Montgomery Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 47 and traffic safety at 41. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. Montgomery Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
41% of the 2,370 homes recorded on Montgomery Street are rent-stabilized, 961 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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