Milton Street, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Milton Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Milton Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and food nearby (94). Housing (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Water system is the most-filed complaint on Milton Street, with 22 reports. Across every category, 75 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name water system. Blocked driveway follows with 11 reports, and residential noise with 10. Reports on Milton Street span 27 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Milton Street carries roughly 39 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 12 violations on file. PLUTO counts 60 residential buildings and 190 homes on Milton Street, with 31 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.2 homes to a building.
Among quiet residential streets, Milton Street ranks 56 on parking and 37 on traffic safety. A 37 on traffic safety places Milton Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 45 and infrastructure at 38. Against every street in the city, Milton Street ranks 82 on transit and 52 on tree cover. Milton Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
The housing file puts 19% of the 190 homes on Milton Street in rent stabilization, 36 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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Milton Street runs through Greenpoint, 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).