E 149 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does E 149 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 149 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (69) and transit (86). Traffic safety (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East 149 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 149 Street have injured 468 people, and traffic safety ranks 0 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 149 Street, with 291 reports. Across every category, 1,175 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 262 reports, and illegal parking with 159. Reports on East 149 Street span 86 distinct 311 categories. About 118 reports per 100 homes sit on East 149 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 149 Street carries 178 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 18 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on East 149 Street, 88 violations of it. Pests follows at 83 violations, then paint and lead at 80. 38 residential buildings on East 149 Street hold the 996 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 26 homes each.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 53, with cleanliness at 15. A 15 on cleanliness places East 149 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 31 and housing at 22 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 85 and food nearby 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 149 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where East 149 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 69.
The housing file puts 31% of the 996 homes on East 149 Street in rent stabilization, 308 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 149 Street runs through Melrose, Concourse and Mott Haven, 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).