E 171 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does E 171 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 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 171 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (52) and food nearby (77). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on East 171 Street, with 512 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 171 Street holds 1,661 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 31% of it. Vehicle noise is the next most-filed at 115 reports, then heat and hot water at 43. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 309 homes on file, that is about 538 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 122 Class C violations on East 171 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 39 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 171 Street is paint and lead, at 142 violations. Pests accounts for 135 more, and doors for 64. The housing file lists 22 residential buildings on East 171 Street holding 309 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 171 Street have injured 29 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 171 Street ranks 50 on cleanliness and 1 on housing. A 1 on housing places East 171 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 36 and traffic safety at 9 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 171 Street ranks 74 on transit and 58 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 171 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where East 171 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 52.
About 79% of the 309 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 209 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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