Lincoln Place, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Lincoln Place in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, 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 Lincoln Place in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (61) and tree cover (92). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Lincoln Place, with 927 reports. The whole 311 file on Lincoln Place holds 4,211 reports, and heat and hot water is 22% of it. Illegal parking follows with 884 reports, and helicopter noise with 305. In all, 101 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lincoln Place. The 311 file works out to about 114 reports for every 100 homes on Lincoln Place.
Inspectors have written 443 Class C violations on Lincoln Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lincoln Place, 360 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (244 violations) and doors (192). PLUTO counts 665 residential buildings and 3,696 homes on Lincoln Place, with 235 walk-ups and 12 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.6 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Lincoln Place have injured 37 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Lincoln Place ranks 41 on infrastructure and 13 on housing. A 13 on housing places Lincoln Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 26 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 22. Against every street in the city, Lincoln Place ranks 87 on transit and 85 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Lincoln Place, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Lincoln Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 61.
Rent stabilization covers about 30% of the 3,696 homes on file, 1,102 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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Lincoln Place runs through Crown Heights, Park Slope and Prospect Heights, 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).