E 163 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 163 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 163 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and tree cover (88). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against East 163 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 284 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 8 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 530 of them. The whole 311 file on East 163 Street holds 2,397 reports, and heat and hot water is 22% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (241 reports) and drinking (221). In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 163 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 163 Street carries roughly 94 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 163 Street carries 479 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 163 Street, 292 violations of it. Doors accounts for 281 more, and paint and lead for 244. PLUTO counts 74 residential buildings and 2,563 homes on East 163 Street, with 22 walk-ups and 20 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 35 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 74 among numbered streets and housing ranks 14. That 14 on housing puts East 163 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 56 on the same scale, with quietness at 39. Against every street in the city, East 163 Street ranks 76 on transit and 74 on food nearby. East 163 Street ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 163 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where East 163 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 83.
The housing file puts 44% of the 2,563 homes on East 163 Street in rent stabilization, 1,131 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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