Linwood Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Linwood Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, 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 Linwood Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (32) and tree cover (89). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Linwood Street name illegal parking than any other category, 295 of them. Across every category, 705 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 56 reports, and commercial noise with 54. The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 591 homes on file, that is about 119 reports per 100 homes.
Linwood Street carries 41 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Linwood Street is pests, at 74 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 37 more, and paint and lead for 21. City housing records put 591 homes in 273 residential buildings on Linwood Street, 69 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on Linwood Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Linwood Street ranks 29 on infrastructure and 9 on parking. Linwood Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Traffic safety ranks 23 on the same scale, with housing at 19. Transit ranks 67 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Linwood Street, at 89. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Linwood Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Linwood Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 32.
2% of the 591 homes recorded on Linwood Street are rent-stabilized, 12 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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