Ellery Street, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Ellery Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 Ellery Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (40) and transit (90). Street crime (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Ellery Street, with 72 reports. Across every category, 332 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (60 reports) and blocked driveway (47). In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ellery Street. Set against the 275 homes on file, that is about 121 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 35 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on Ellery Street, 13 violations of it. Pests accounts for 11 more. The housing file lists 76 residential buildings on Ellery Street holding 275 homes, with 14 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.6 homes each.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 21, with quietness at 13. Ellery Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Traffic safety ranks 18 on the same scale, with parking at 15. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 78 and tree cover at 56. Ellery Street ranks 90 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Ellery Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 40.
1% of the 275 homes recorded on Ellery Street are rent-stabilized, 4 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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Ellery Street runs through Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, 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).