E 198 Street, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does E 198 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 198 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and transit (85). Housing (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 198 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 174 of them. Across every category, 522 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (90 reports) and heat and hot water (81). Reports on East 198 Street span 66 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 65 reports for every 100 homes on East 198 Street.
East 198 Street carries 87 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 99 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 67 violations, then doors at 52. 68 residential buildings on East 198 Street hold the 809 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 198 Street holds about 12 homes.
Reported crashes on East 198 Street have injured 34 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 74 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 50. East 198 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 64 on the same scale, with quietness at 51. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 69 and tree cover at 62. East 198 Street ranks 85 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
The housing file puts 45% of the 809 homes on East 198 Street in rent stabilization, 322 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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