Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against major corridors. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Linden Boulevard in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (60) and tree cover (99). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Linden Boulevard name heat and hot water than any other category, 934 of them. The whole 311 file on Linden Boulevard holds 7,111 reports, and heat and hot water is 13% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (856 reports) and illegal parking (531). The file runs across 102 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 6,776 homes on file, that is about 105 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 1,364 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Linden Boulevard, 871 violations of it. Pests accounts for 775 more, and doors for 457. 539 residential buildings on Linden Boulevard hold the 6,776 homes on file, 139 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 39 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
NYPD records 1,191 people injured in crashes on Linden Boulevard since 2021.
Among major corridors, Linden Boulevard ranks 35 on parking and 10 on quietness. A 10 on quietness places Linden Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, cleanliness sits at 34 and traffic safety at 13. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Linden Boulevard ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band Linden Boulevard is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Linden Boulevard is infrastructure, at 60.
Rent stabilization covers about 40% of the 6,776 homes on file, 2,718 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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Linden Boulevard runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York & City Line and East Flatbush & Remsen Village, 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).