Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does Montrose Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Montrose Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and food nearby (87). Traffic safety (63) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Montrose Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Montrose Avenue have injured 37 people, and traffic safety ranks 63 among busy avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Montrose Avenue, with 70 reports. Across every category, 432 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 69 reports, then commercial noise at 30. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on Montrose Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Montrose Avenue carries roughly 30 reports per 100 of them.
Montrose Avenue carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 47 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 40 violations, then paint and lead at 34. The housing file lists 99 residential buildings on Montrose Avenue holding 1,453 homes, with 61 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 15 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Montrose Avenue ranks 87 on parking and 76 on housing. That 76 on housing puts Montrose Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 79 on the same scale, with quietness at 76. The citywide frame puts transit at 86 and tree cover at 71. Montrose Avenue ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where Montrose Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 19% of the 1,453 homes on file, 269 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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Montrose Avenue runs through East Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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