E 170 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does E 170 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 12, 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 170 Street in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (38) and tree cover (76). Street crime (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on East 170 Street, with 320 reports. The whole 311 file on East 170 Street holds 1,990 reports, and commercial noise is 16% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (204 reports) and heat and hot water (155). In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 170 Street. The 311 file works out to about 239 reports for every 100 homes on East 170 Street.
East 170 Street carries 337 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 41 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 170 Street is pests, at 180 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (160 violations) and doors (122). The housing file lists 65 residential buildings on East 170 Street holding 832 homes, with 27 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
NYPD records 137 people injured in crashes on East 170 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 22, with housing at 5. East 170 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 19 and traffic safety at 5. Against every street in the city, East 170 Street ranks 71 on transit and 65 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 170 Street, at 76. East 170 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 38.
Rent stabilization covers about 35% of the 832 homes on file, 286 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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