E 161 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 161 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 35, 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 161 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and tree cover (86). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East 161 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 161 Street have injured 315 people, and traffic safety ranks 6 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 151 of them. Across every category, 1,349 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 124 reports, then residential noise at 99. Reports on East 161 Street span 86 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 67 reports for every 100 homes on East 161 Street.
HPD has cited 231 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 161 Street, 142 violations of it. Doors accounts for 120 more, and paint and lead for 110. The housing file lists 65 residential buildings on East 161 Street holding 2,022 homes, with 13 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 31 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 56, with housing at 27. That 27 on housing puts East 161 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 56 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 49. Against every street in the city, East 161 Street ranks 84 on transit and 84 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
38% of the 2,022 homes recorded on East 161 Street are rent-stabilized, 764 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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