E 221 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does E 221 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 221 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (76) and tree cover (71). Street crime (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 221 Street name residential noise than any other category, 118 of them. Residential noise accounts for 15% of the 791 reports on file here. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (89 reports) and blocked driveway (71). Reports on East 221 Street span 50 distinct 311 categories. About 111 reports per 100 homes sit on East 221 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 143 Class C violations on East 221 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 221 Street is pests, at 85 violations. Behind it the file holds structure (49 violations) and paint and lead (46). 244 residential buildings on East 221 Street hold the 712 homes on file, 53 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 221 Street have injured 12 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 221 Street ranks 63 on infrastructure and 9 on housing. That 9 on housing puts East 221 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Parking ranks 41 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 28. Against every street in the city, East 221 Street ranks 55 on food nearby and 50 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where East 221 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 712 homes on file, 156 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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