E 188 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does E 188 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 8, ranked against numbered streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 188 Street in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (47) and food nearby (92). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 188 Street name residential noise than any other category, 320 of them. Residential noise accounts for 21% of the 1,554 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 205 reports, and heat and hot water with 155. In all, 74 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 188 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 188 Street carries roughly 339 reports per 100 of them.
East 188 Street carries 220 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 48 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 200 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (170 violations) and plumbing (111). PLUTO counts 40 residential buildings and 459 homes on East 188 Street, with 27 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 188 Street have injured 104 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 188 Street ranks 26 on parking and 2 on traffic safety. That 2 on traffic safety puts East 188 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 3 on the same scale, with quietness at 2. Tree cover ranks 73 and transit 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 188 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 47.
75% of the 459 homes recorded on East 188 Street are rent-stabilized, 344 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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E 188 Street runs through Belmont and Fordham Heights, 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).