E 142 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does E 142 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.

Calm 21, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts E 142 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (59) and transit (74). Street crime (5) is the weak spot.

On the record

Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 142 Street, with 144 reports. Across every category, 563 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 46 reports, then unsanitary condition at 35. In all, 47 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 142 Street. The 311 file works out to about 120 reports for every 100 homes on East 142 Street.

Inspectors have written 120 Class C violations on East 142 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 26 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 92 violations on file. Doors accounts for 86 more, and pests for 77. The housing file lists 57 residential buildings on East 142 Street holding 469 homes, with 21 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.2 homes each.

Reported crashes on East 142 Street have injured 21 people since 2021.

Among numbered streets, East 142 Street ranks 27 on quietness and 7 on housing. That 7 on housing puts East 142 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 24 and cleanliness at 12 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 142 Street ranks 67 on food nearby and 66 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 142 Street, at 74. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 142 Street is scored inside.

Parking is where East 142 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 59.

Rent stabilization covers about 54% of the 469 homes on file, 251 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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