E 156 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does E 156 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 11, 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 156 Street in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (38) and tree cover (84). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 156 Street, with 311 reports. Across every category, 1,616 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 294 reports, then residential noise at 163. In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 156 Street. Set against the 872 homes on file, that is about 185 reports per 100 homes.
East 156 Street carries 128 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 119 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 85 violations, then windows at 60. PLUTO counts 62 residential buildings and 872 homes on East 156 Street, with 42 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 102 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 156 Street ranks 15 on housing and 3 on parking. A 3 on parking places East 156 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 14 and traffic safety at 6. The citywide frame puts transit at 70 and food nearby at 63. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 156 Street, at 84. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 156 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 38.
About 67% of the 872 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 558 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 156 Street runs through Melrose, Longwood and Hunts Point, 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).