E 157 Street, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does E 157 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 5, ranked against numbered streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 157 Street in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (20) and food nearby (69). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on East 157 Street, with 51 reports. Across every category, 312 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (45 reports) and illegal parking (32). Reports on East 157 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 157 Street carries roughly 286 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 157 Street carries 55 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 50 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on East 157 Street, 143 violations of it. Pests accounts for 87 more, and paint and lead for 50. PLUTO counts 16 residential buildings and 109 homes on East 157 Street, with 16 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.8 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 157 Street have injured 17 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 12 among numbered streets and housing ranks 2. A 2 on housing places East 157 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 4 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 3. Against every street in the city, East 157 Street ranks 66 on transit and 55 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 69. East 157 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 20.
About 42% of the 109 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 42 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 157 Street runs through Melrose and Concourse, 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).