E 169 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does E 169 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against numbered streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 169 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (35) and tree cover (87). Street crime (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 169 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 556 of them. Across every category, 2,373 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 317 reports, then residential noise at 171. Reports on East 169 Street span 76 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 194 reports for every 100 homes on East 169 Street.
Inspectors have written 416 Class C violations on East 169 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 34 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 169 Street, 356 violations of it. Doors accounts for 318 more, and heat and hot water for 171. 155 residential buildings on East 169 Street hold the 1,222 homes on file, 53 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.9 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 169 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 35, with housing at 7. East 169 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 26 and traffic safety at 9 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 169 Street ranks 72 on food nearby and 61 on transit. East 169 Street ranks 87 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 35.
The housing file puts 64% of the 1,222 homes on East 169 Street in rent stabilization, 777 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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