Marlborough Road, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Marlborough Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.

Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 Marlborough Road in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (89) and transit (82). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.

On the record

Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Marlborough Road, with 79 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Marlborough Road holds 256 reports, and blocked driveway is 31% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 76 reports, then noise at 46. Reports on Marlborough Road span 56 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 58 reports for every 100 homes on Marlborough Road.

HPD has cited 18 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Marlborough Road is pests, at 37 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 29 more, and structure for 14. 175 residential buildings on Marlborough Road hold the 439 homes on file, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on Marlborough Road have injured 9 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 55 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 19. Marlborough Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 38 and housing at 38 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Marlborough Road ranks 76 on food nearby and 66 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Marlborough Road, at 82. Marlborough Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Marlborough Road is quietness, at 89.

The housing file puts 35% of the 439 homes on Marlborough Road in rent stabilization, 155 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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