Linden Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Linden Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 33, 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 Linden Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (68) and transit (85). Street crime (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Linden Street, with 247 reports. The whole 311 file on Linden Street holds 1,032 reports, and residential noise is 24% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 139 reports, then blocked driveway at 136. Reports on Linden Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 66 reports for every 100 homes on Linden Street.
Inspectors have written 121 Class C violations on Linden Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Linden Street is pests, at 86 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (77 violations) and paint and lead (58). PLUTO counts 185 residential buildings and 1,575 homes on Linden Street, with 107 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Linden Street holds about 8.5 homes.
Since 2021, 41 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 52, with quietness at 20. That 20 on quietness puts Linden Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 37 and traffic safety at 27. Against every street in the city, Linden Street ranks 83 on food nearby and 82 on tree cover. Linden Street ranks 85 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
25% of the 1,575 homes recorded on Linden Street are rent-stabilized, 396 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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