Wharf Drive, Brooklyn: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 80 out of 100. How does Wharf Drive in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 80 out of 100.
Calm 90, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Wharf Drive in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and food nearby (81). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Wharf Drive, with 27 reports. Across every category, 53 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 51% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 14 reports. Reports on Wharf Drive span 18 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Wharf Drive carries roughly 8 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Wharf Drive carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on Wharf Drive, 10 violations of it.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Wharf Drive have injured no one.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 98, with quietness at 77. Wharf Drive sits in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 97 on the same scale, with housing at 83. Transit ranks 47 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Wharf Drive ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 658 on Wharf Drive.
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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Wharf Drive 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).