E 162 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 162 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 162 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and food nearby (71). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 162 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 496 of them. The whole 311 file on East 162 Street holds 1,715 reports, and heat and hot water is 29% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (245 reports) and unsanitary condition (117). Reports on East 162 Street span 66 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,853 homes on file, that is about 93 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 395 Class C violations on East 162 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 21 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 203 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (197 violations) and doors (143). City housing records put 1,853 homes in 42 residential buildings on East 162 Street, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 44 homes each.
Since 2021, 28 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 162 Street ranks 85 on parking and 21 on cleanliness. A 21 on cleanliness places East 162 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 79 on the same scale, with quietness at 28. Tree cover ranks 65 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. East 162 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 162 Street is infrastructure, at 91.
About 93% of the 1,853 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,724 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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