E 160 Street, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does E 160 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 8, ranked against numbered streets. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 160 Street in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (23) and transit (73). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 160 Street, with 139 reports. Across every category, 1,017 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 130 reports, and residential noise with 109. In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 160 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 160 Street carries roughly 301 reports per 100 of them.
East 160 Street carries 175 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 52 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 79 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (68 violations) and plumbing (37). City housing records put 338 homes in 33 residential buildings on East 160 Street, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 160 Street holds about 10 homes.
Since 2021, 28 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 13, with quietness at 5. That 5 on quietness puts East 160 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 11 and parking at 9. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 68 and tree cover at 59. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 160 Street, at 73. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 160 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 160 Street is infrastructure, at 23.
About 48% of the 338 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 161 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 160 Street runs through Melrose and Morrisania, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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