E 135 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does E 135 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.

Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts E 135 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (63) and food nearby (82). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

Crashes are the mark against East 135 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 135 Street have injured 113 people, and traffic safety ranks 2 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 37 reports. The whole 311 file on East 135 Street holds 269 reports, and illegal parking is 14% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (33 reports) and heat and hot water (23). Reports on East 135 Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. About 52 reports per 100 homes sit on East 135 Street, counting every category.

The HPD file on East 135 Street carries 28 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 135 Street, 18 violations of it. Structure accounts for 15 more, and pests for 13. City housing records put 513 homes in 12 residential buildings on East 135 Street, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 43 homes each.

Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 53, with infrastructure at 18. An 18 on infrastructure places East 135 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 43 and cleanliness at 18. Transit ranks 81 and tree cover 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 135 Street, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 135 Street is quietness, at 63.

1% of the 513 homes recorded on East 135 Street are rent-stabilized, 6 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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