E 208 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does E 208 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 208 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and transit (88). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 208 Street, with 105 reports. Across every category, 513 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (59 reports) and illegal parking (40). Reports on East 208 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. About 115 reports per 100 homes sit on East 208 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 87 Class C violations on East 208 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 53 violations on file. Pests follows at 49 violations, then structure at 31. City housing records put 447 homes in 21 residential buildings on East 208 Street, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 72, with parking at 36. East 208 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts quietness at 48 and cleanliness at 42 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 65 and tree cover 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 208 Street, at 88. East 208 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 208 Street is infrastructure, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 73% of the 447 homes on file, 327 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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