Lancaster Avenue, Brooklyn NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Lancaster Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Lancaster Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (82) and food nearby (63); tree cover (26) is the weak spot.

On the record

Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Lancaster Avenue, with 28 reports. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 82 among smaller avenues. None of the 114 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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