E 218 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does E 218 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts E 218 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (84) and transit (60). Street crime (17) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on East 218 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 69 of them. Blocked driveway accounts for 22% of the 311 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (30 reports) and illegal parking (25). Reports on East 218 Street span 41 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 82 reports for every 100 homes on East 218 Street.

East 218 Street carries 50 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 218 Street, 44 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (24 violations) and paint and lead (18). 182 residential buildings on East 218 Street hold the 380 homes on file, 43 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.

Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 81, with housing at 19. East 218 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Traffic safety ranks 49 on the same scale, with parking at 29. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and tree cover at 30. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 218 Street, at 60. East 218 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 218 Street is quietness, at 84.

Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 380 homes on file, 15 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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