E 143 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does E 143 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.

Calm 26, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts E 143 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (63) and food nearby (75). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on East 143 Street, with 403 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,402 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (402 reports) and illegal parking (43). The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 417 homes on file, that is about 336 reports per 100 homes.

Inspectors have written 35 Class C violations on East 143 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 143 Street, 22 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (17 violations) and doors (10). PLUTO counts 41 residential buildings and 417 homes on East 143 Street, with 11 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 10 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on East 143 Street have injured 32 people since 2021.

Among numbered streets, East 143 Street ranks 62 on infrastructure and 13 on traffic safety. A 13 on traffic safety places East 143 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 55 and housing at 30 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 73 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 63.

6% of the 417 homes recorded on East 143 Street are rent-stabilized, 24 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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