E 189 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does E 189 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against numbered streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 189 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and food nearby (91). Housing (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 189 Street, with 152 reports. The whole 311 file on East 189 Street holds 1,378 reports, and heat and hot water is 11% of it. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 69 reports, then paint and plaster at 56. In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 189 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 189 Street carries roughly 409 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on East 189 Street carries 422 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 125 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 189 Street, 210 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (199 violations) and structure (125). City housing records put 337 homes in 23 residential buildings on East 189 Street, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 189 Street holds about 15 homes.
NYPD records 35 people injured in crashes on East 189 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 43, with traffic safety at 9. That 9 on traffic safety puts East 189 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 29 and quietness at 17 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 189 Street ranks 67 on tree cover and 55 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. East 189 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
About 74% of the 337 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 251 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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