56 Drive, Brooklyn: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does 56 Drive in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 17, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 56 Drive in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (79) and tree cover (42). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 56 Drive name illegal parking than any other category, 10 of them. Across every category, 47 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. Reports on 56 Drive span 14 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 56 Drive carries roughly 118 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 56 Drive holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 36 residential buildings on 56 Drive hold the 40 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on 56 Drive since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 66, with parking at 4. A 4 on parking places 56 Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 52 and infrastructure at 19 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 6, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 42. 56 Drive is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
None of the 40 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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56 Drive runs through Marine Park, 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).