E 179 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does E 179 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 179 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and tree cover (83). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 179 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 307 of them. Across every category, 2,225 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 168 reports, and illegal parking with 119. In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 179 Street. The 311 file works out to about 108 reports for every 100 homes on East 179 Street.
East 179 Street carries 460 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 315 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (269 violations) and doors (236). PLUTO counts 133 residential buildings and 2,063 homes on East 179 Street, with 42 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
NYPD records 63 people injured in crashes on East 179 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 69 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 40. A 40 on quietness places East 179 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 48 and traffic safety at 46. Against every street in the city, East 179 Street ranks 75 on food nearby and 70 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 179 Street, at 83. East 179 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where East 179 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 80.
About 43% of the 2,063 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 886 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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