E 139 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does E 139 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.

Calm 23, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts E 139 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (63) and food nearby (78). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on East 139 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 238 of them. The whole 311 file on East 139 Street holds 1,104 reports, and heat and hot water is 22% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 88 reports, and unsanitary condition with 73. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 139 Street. About 142 reports per 100 homes sit on East 139 Street, counting every category.

East 139 Street carries 303 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 39 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is heat and hot water, with 141 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (120 violations) and structure (98). City housing records put 779 homes in 115 residential buildings on East 139 Street, 41 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 139 Street holds about 6.8 homes.

NYPD records 45 people injured in crashes on East 139 Street since 2021.

Among numbered streets, East 139 Street ranks 31 on quietness and 3 on housing. That 3 on housing puts East 139 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 30 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 21. Against every street in the city, East 139 Street ranks 73 on tree cover and 70 on transit. East 139 Street ranks 78 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 139 Street is scored inside.

Parking is where East 139 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 63.

Rent stabilization covers about 52% of the 779 homes on file, 401 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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