E 56 Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does E 56 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against numbered streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts E 56 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (68) and tree cover (93). Transit (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 56 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 220 of them. The whole 311 file on East 56 Street holds 1,082 reports, and illegal parking is 20% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 172 reports, then residential noise at 117. Reports on East 56 Street span 63 distinct 311 categories. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on East 56 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 56 Street carries 97 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 56 Street, 101 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 51 violations, then bed bugs at 46. City housing records put 1,441 homes in 705 residential buildings on East 56 Street, 120 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2 homes each.
NYPD records 59 people injured in crashes on East 56 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 49, with parking at 20. That 20 on parking puts East 56 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 49 and housing at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 53 and transit at 15. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 56 Street, at 93. East 56 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 56 Street is cleanliness, at 68.
6% of the 1,441 homes recorded on East 56 Street are rent-stabilized, 83 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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