E 164 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does E 164 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.

Calm 19, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts E 164 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (44) and food nearby (78). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.

On the record

Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 164 Street, with 106 reports. The whole 311 file on East 164 Street holds 640 reports, and heat and hot water is 17% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (64 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (53). The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 164 Street carries roughly 113 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited 124 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 78 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (73 violations) and structure (60). PLUTO counts 37 residential buildings and 565 homes on East 164 Street, with 25 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 15 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on East 164 Street have injured 36 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 35 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 9. East 164 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 26 on the same scale, with housing at 10. Tree cover ranks 77 and transit 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 164 Street, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 44.

The housing file puts 56% of the 565 homes on East 164 Street in rent stabilization, 315 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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