E 197 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does E 197 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 34, 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 197 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (62) and transit (69). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 197 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 187 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 34% of the 546 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal parking (86 reports) and blocked driveway (60). The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. About 122 reports per 100 homes sit on East 197 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 63 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on East 197 Street, 137 violations of it. Pests follows at 127 violations, then structure at 54. The housing file lists 47 residential buildings on East 197 Street holding 447 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 9.5 homes each.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 50, with parking at 21. East 197 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts quietness at 24 and cleanliness at 21 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 53 and tree cover 49, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 197 Street, at 69. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
60% of the 447 homes recorded on East 197 Street are rent-stabilized, 270 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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