E 178 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does E 178 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 37, 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 178 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (66) and tree cover (85). Street crime (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on East 178 Street, with 275 reports. The whole 311 file on East 178 Street holds 1,962 reports, and residential noise is 14% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 196 reports, then heat and hot water at 169. In all, 72 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 178 Street. The 311 file works out to about 106 reports for every 100 homes on East 178 Street.
The HPD file on East 178 Street carries 264 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 178 Street, 179 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 176 more, and doors for 136. The housing file lists 111 residential buildings on East 178 Street holding 1,844 homes, with 59 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 178 Street have injured 49 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 178 Street ranks 58 on cleanliness and 13 on quietness. That 13 on quietness puts East 178 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 56 and housing at 17. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 69 and transit at 65. East 178 Street ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 178 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 66.
Rent stabilization covers about 39% of the 1,844 homes on file, 717 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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