E 159 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 159 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 159 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and food nearby (82). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 159 Street, with 256 reports. Across every category, 629 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 86 reports, and elevator with 54. Reports on East 159 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. About 113 reports per 100 homes sit on East 159 Street, counting every category.
East 159 Street carries 75 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 109 violations on file. Doors accounts for 64 more, and paint and lead for 47. PLUTO counts 38 residential buildings and 555 homes on East 159 Street, with 24 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. The average building on East 159 Street holds about 15 homes.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 57, with quietness at 14. East 159 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 47 and cleanliness at 25. Against every street in the city, East 159 Street ranks 74 on transit and 59 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 159 Street, at 82. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 159 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
The housing file puts 53% of the 555 homes on East 159 Street in rent stabilization, 155 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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