Street Marks Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Street Marks Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Street Marks Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and tree cover (98). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Street Marks Avenue, with 664 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among busy avenues. Across every category, 3,670 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 316 reports, and unsanitary condition with 195. Reports on Street Marks Avenue span 97 distinct 311 categories. About 70 reports per 100 homes sit on Street Marks Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 608 Class C violations on Street Marks Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Street Marks Avenue is pests, at 516 violations. Paint and lead follows at 398 violations, then structure at 248. The housing file lists 793 residential buildings on Street Marks Avenue holding 5,241 homes, with 356 walk-ups and 29 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Street Marks Avenue have injured 96 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 67, with housing at 22. That 22 on housing puts Street Marks Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 65 on the same scale, with quietness at 43. Food nearby ranks 84 and transit 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Street Marks Avenue, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
39% of the 5,241 homes recorded on Street Marks Avenue are rent-stabilized, 2,011 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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Street Marks Avenue runs through Crown Heights, Prospect Heights and Ocean Hill, 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).