Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against busy avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Marcy Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (83) and tree cover (90). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Marcy Avenue, with 239 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,133 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 161 reports, and dirty condition with 118. In all, 87 distinct 311 categories are represented on Marcy Avenue. About 66 reports per 100 homes sit on Marcy Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 90 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Marcy Avenue is bed bugs, at 81 violations. Pests follows at 78 violations, then paint and lead at 48. The housing file lists 224 residential buildings on Marcy Avenue holding 1,718 homes, with 97 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 7.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 217 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Marcy Avenue ranks 50 on housing and 15 on traffic safety. Marcy Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 37 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 36. Food nearby ranks 89 and transit 86, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Marcy Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
About 24% of the 1,718 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 412 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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Marcy Avenue runs through Bed-Stuy, South Williamsburg and Williamsburg, 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).