Lincoln Road, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Lincoln Road in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Road in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (74) and transit (88). Quietness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Lincoln Road, with 257 reports. Across every category, 1,120 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (177 reports) and illegal parking (109). Reports on Lincoln Road span 79 distinct 311 categories. About 92 reports per 100 homes sit on Lincoln Road, counting every category.
HPD has cited 118 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 174 violations on file. Pests follows at 148 violations, then doors at 89. 174 residential buildings on Lincoln Road hold the 1,211 homes on file, 31 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Lincoln Road have injured 17 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 53, with housing at 16. That 16 on housing puts Lincoln Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 45 and cleanliness at 32. Food nearby ranks 84 and tree cover 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. Lincoln Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Lincoln Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 74.
The housing file puts 66% of the 1,211 homes on Lincoln Road in rent stabilization, 801 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 Road runs through Prospect Lefferts Gardens, 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).