Elton Street, Brooklyn: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 30 out of 100. How does Elton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 30 out of 100.
Calm 14, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 60, 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 Elton Street in the bottom 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (30) and tree cover (90). Street crime (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Elton Street, with 494 reports. Across every category, 1,280 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 217 reports, and residential noise with 117. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. About 125 reports per 100 homes sit on Elton Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Elton Street carries 59 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Elton Street, 61 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (29 violations) and doors (23). City housing records put 1,023 homes in 307 residential buildings on Elton Street, 32 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Elton Street holds about 3.3 homes.
Since 2021, 50 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 19 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 8. An 8 on parking places Elton Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 19 on the same scale, with quietness at 9. Against every street in the city, Elton Street ranks 59 on transit and 42 on food nearby. Elton Street ranks 90 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 30.
44% of the 1,023 homes recorded on Elton Street are rent-stabilized, 454 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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Elton Street runs through East New York & New Lots, East New York and Spring Creek, 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).