Lincoln Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Lincoln Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lincoln Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (73) and tree cover (86). Street crime (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Lincoln Avenue, with 454 reports. Across every category, 1,713 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 265 reports, and illegal parking with 222. The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Lincoln Avenue carries roughly 150 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 289 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 25 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Lincoln Avenue is pests, at 186 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 162 more, and doors for 100. PLUTO counts 355 residential buildings and 1,144 homes on Lincoln Avenue, with 72 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on Lincoln Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 52 among busy avenues and housing ranks 12. Lincoln Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 36 and parking at 12. The citywide frame puts transit at 70 and food nearby at 59. Lincoln Avenue ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Lincoln Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lincoln Avenue is traffic safety, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 1,144 homes on file, 30 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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