E 196 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does E 196 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 196 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and transit (86). Housing (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 196 Street, with 304 reports. Across every category, 1,157 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 186 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 158. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. About 128 reports per 100 homes sit on East 196 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 196 Street carries 191 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 21 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 196 Street, 202 violations of it. Pests accounts for 193 more, and structure for 124. 69 residential buildings on East 196 Street hold the 902 homes on file, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
NYPD records 31 people injured in crashes on East 196 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 74, with quietness at 10. That 10 on quietness puts East 196 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Parking ranks 46 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 40. Food nearby ranks 59 and tree cover 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. East 196 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 196 Street is infrastructure, at 78.
70% of the 902 homes recorded on East 196 Street are rent-stabilized, 628 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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