E 181 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does E 181 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 181 Street in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (61) and tree cover (84). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 181 Street, with 279 reports. Across every category, 1,757 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (242 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (146). In all, 71 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 181 Street. Set against the 1,179 homes on file, that is about 149 reports per 100 homes.
East 181 Street carries 314 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 27 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 181 Street is pests, at 160 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (136 violations) and heat and hot water (98). City housing records put 1,179 homes in 96 residential buildings on East 181 Street, 60 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 97 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, East 181 Street ranks 37 on parking and 9 on quietness. A 9 on quietness places East 181 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 27 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 11. Food nearby ranks 67 and transit 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on East 181 Street, at 84. East 181 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 181 Street is infrastructure, at 61.
The housing file puts 41% of the 1,179 homes on East 181 Street in rent stabilization, 491 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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