E 168 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does E 168 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 168 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (67) and tree cover (81). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 168 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 293 of them. Across every category, 1,470 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to plumbing (163 reports) and unsanitary condition (151). In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 168 Street. Set against the 1,096 homes on file, that is about 134 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 322 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 29 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 168 Street, 249 violations of it. Pests accounts for 219 more, and structure for 181. City housing records put 1,096 homes in 61 residential buildings on East 168 Street, 35 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 168 Street holds about 18 homes.
Since 2021, 104 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 168 Street ranks 51 on infrastructure and 9 on traffic safety. A 9 on traffic safety places East 168 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 26 and cleanliness at 22. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 168 Street ranks 81 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 168 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
61% of the 1,096 homes recorded on East 168 Street are rent-stabilized, 667 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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