E 138 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does E 138 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 138 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (86) and transit (86). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 138 Street, with 259 reports. Across every category, 1,603 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 157 reports, then unsanitary condition at 138. In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 138 Street. The 311 file works out to about 88 reports for every 100 homes on East 138 Street.
HPD has cited 283 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 138 Street is pests, at 222 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 173 more, and doors for 160. PLUTO counts 91 residential buildings and 1,820 homes on East 138 Street, with 65 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. The average building on East 138 Street holds about 20 homes.
Reported crashes on East 138 Street have injured 254 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 138 Street ranks 73 on infrastructure and 6 on traffic safety. A 6 on traffic safety places East 138 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 37 on the same scale, with housing at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 77 and tree cover at 70. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 138 Street, at 86. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 138 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where East 138 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
About 62% of the 1,820 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,125 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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E 138 Street runs through Mott Haven and Concourse, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).