56 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 56 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 56 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (67) and tree cover (92). Parking (34) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 56 Street, with 211 reports, and parking ranks 34 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,301 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 200 reports, then vehicle noise at 139. In all, 79 distinct 311 categories are represented on 56 Street. Set against the 1,836 homes on file, that is about 71 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 74 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 150 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (145 violations) and doors (46). 640 residential buildings on 56 Street hold the 1,836 homes on file, 257 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.
NYPD records 46 people injured in crashes on 56 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 56 Street ranks 66 on cleanliness and 36 on housing. A 36 on housing places 56 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 61 and infrastructure at 47 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 75 and transit 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 56 Street ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 56 Street is traffic safety, at 67.
7% of the 1,836 homes recorded on 56 Street are rent-stabilized, 121 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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