Lynch Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Lynch Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Lynch Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and transit (82). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lynch Street name water system than any other category, 27 of them. Water system accounts for 18% of the 152 reports on file here. After that the file runs to missed collection (24 reports) and illegal parking (22). The file runs across 27 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 362 homes on file, that is about 42 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on Lynch Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Lynch Street, 44 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 37 violations. The housing file lists 78 residential buildings on Lynch Street holding 362 homes, with 41 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on Lynch Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 69, with housing at 34. That 34 on housing puts Lynch Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 59 and traffic safety at 52. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 73 and food nearby at 48. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. Lynch Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
11% of the 362 homes recorded on Lynch Street are rent-stabilized, 39 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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Lynch Street runs through South Williamsburg, 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).