Elbertson Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Elbertson Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, 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 Elbertson Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (61) and food nearby (80). Quietness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Elbertson Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 55 of them. The whole 311 file on Elbertson Street holds 593 reports, and blocked driveway is 9% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 39 reports, then residential noise at 36. Reports on Elbertson Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. About 72 reports per 100 homes sit on Elbertson Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 69 Class C violations on Elbertson Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Elbertson Street, 74 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (59 violations) and pests (55). The housing file lists 90 residential buildings on Elbertson Street holding 818 homes, with 53 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 9.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 60, with housing at 21. A 21 on housing places Elbertson Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 56 and parking at 55. Against every street in the city, Elbertson Street ranks 71 on transit and 61 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Elbertson Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 61.
Rent stabilization covers about 73% of the 818 homes on file, 600 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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Elbertson Street runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).