E 185 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does E 185 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against numbered streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 185 Street in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (77) and food nearby (84). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 185 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 45 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 9% of the 527 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (30 reports) and unsanitary condition (23). In all, 43 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 185 Street. About 245 reports per 100 homes sit on East 185 Street, counting every category.
East 185 Street carries 70 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 33 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 185 Street is paint and lead, at 86 violations. Pests accounts for 75 more, and structure for 37. The housing file lists 30 residential buildings on East 185 Street holding 215 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.2 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 185 Street have injured 25 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 28 among numbered streets and housing ranks 4. East 185 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts cleanliness at 23 and traffic safety at 7 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 185 Street ranks 53 on transit and 34 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 185 Street, at 84. East 185 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 30% of the 215 homes on file, 64 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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