Marine Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Marine Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Marine Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and food nearby (72). Parking (42) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Marine Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 117 of them, and parking ranks 42 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Marine Avenue holds 394 reports, and illegal parking is 30% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 72 reports, and blocked driveway with 52. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. About 38 reports per 100 homes sit on Marine Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on Marine Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Marine Avenue, 16 violations of it. Windows accounts for 16 more. 121 residential buildings on Marine Avenue hold the 1,031 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Marine Avenue holds about 8.5 homes.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 84 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 57. That 57 on quietness puts Marine Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 84 and infrastructure at 61. Against every street in the city, Marine Avenue ranks 69 on transit and 63 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Marine Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Marine Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 99.
The housing file puts 35% of the 1,031 homes on Marine Avenue in rent stabilization, 363 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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Marine Avenue runs through Bay Ridge, 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).