E 186 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does E 186 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.

Calm 19, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts E 186 Street in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (60) and food nearby (88). Housing (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on East 186 Street, with 45 reports. Across every category, 193 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name commercial noise. Residential noise follows with 30 reports, and blocked driveway with 24. In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 186 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 186 Street carries roughly 276 reports per 100 of them.

East 186 Street carries 18 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 186 Street, 14 violations of it. The housing file lists 21 residential buildings on East 186 Street holding 70 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 25 among numbered streets and parking ranks 6. That 6 on parking puts East 186 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 23 and quietness at 18. Against every street in the city, East 186 Street ranks 55 on transit and 32 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on East 186 Street, at 88. East 186 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 186 Street is infrastructure, at 60.

43% of the 70 homes recorded on East 186 Street are rent-stabilized, 30 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.

Nearest streets in Bronx

E 186 Street runs through Belmont, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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