Lincoln Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Lincoln Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lincoln Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (66) and tree cover (59). Housing (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Lincoln Avenue, with 38 reports. Across every category, 280 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 30 reports, and heat and hot water with 27. The file runs across 59 distinct 311 categories in all. About 70 reports per 100 homes sit on Lincoln Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 32 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Lincoln Avenue, 23 violations of it. Pests follows at 16 violations, then doors at 11. PLUTO counts 181 residential buildings and 401 homes on Lincoln Avenue, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 22 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 29 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 23. That 23 on traffic safety puts Lincoln Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 27 and cleanliness at 23 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 51 and food nearby 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Lincoln Avenue ranks 59 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Lincoln Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 66.
Of the 401 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Lincoln Avenue runs through New Dorp, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).