Eldert Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Eldert Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.

Calm 24, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 Eldert Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (33) and transit (78). Quietness (8) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Eldert Street, with 194 reports. Across every category, 710 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 72 reports, then heat and hot water at 42. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. About 94 reports per 100 homes sit on Eldert Street, counting every category.

Inspectors have written 57 Class C violations on Eldert 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 Eldert Street is bed bugs, at 49 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (46 violations) and heat and hot water (20). The housing file lists 194 residential buildings on Eldert Street holding 758 homes, with 98 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.9 homes each.

Reported crashes on Eldert Street have injured 17 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 30 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 23. A 23 on parking places Eldert Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 25 and cleanliness at 23 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 77 and food nearby 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Eldert Street, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 33.

The housing file puts 7% of the 758 homes on Eldert Street in rent stabilization, 53 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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