E 165 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does E 165 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 165 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (75) and tree cover (89). Street crime (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on East 165 Street, with 349 reports. Across every category, 1,577 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 331 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 107. The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,374 homes on file, that is about 115 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 214 Class C violations on East 165 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 171 violations on file. Doors accounts for 139 more, and structure for 115. PLUTO counts 88 residential buildings and 1,374 homes on East 165 Street, with 62 walk-ups and 12 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
NYPD records 148 people injured in crashes on East 165 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 33, with traffic safety at 8. An 8 on traffic safety places East 165 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 25 and quietness at 10. Against every street in the city, East 165 Street ranks 72 on transit and 65 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 165 Street, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 165 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where East 165 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 75.
54% of the 1,374 homes recorded on East 165 Street are rent-stabilized, 744 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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