E 172 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does E 172 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 172 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (42) and tree cover (86). Street crime (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on East 172 Street, with 233 reports. Across every category, 1,429 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to drug activity (190 reports) and illegal parking (189). The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 172 Street carries roughly 152 reports per 100 of them.
East 172 Street carries 200 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 21 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 172 Street is pests, at 161 violations. Paint and lead follows at 111 violations, then doors at 109. 142 residential buildings on East 172 Street hold the 938 homes on file, 70 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.6 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 172 Street have injured 86 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 27 among numbered streets and housing ranks 8. An 8 on housing places East 172 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 25 and traffic safety at 12 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 172 Street ranks 74 on transit and 69 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. East 172 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where East 172 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 42.
About 50% of the 938 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 467 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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