E 228 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does E 228 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.

Calm 31, 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 228 Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (54) and tree cover (63). Housing (6) is the weak spot.

On the record

Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 228 Street, with 322 reports. Across every category, 814 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 76 reports, then residential noise at 61. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 228 Street. About 129 reports per 100 homes sit on East 228 Street, counting every category.

East 228 Street carries 167 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 27 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 228 Street is pests, at 82 violations. Heat and hot water follows at 66 violations, then paint and lead at 51. The housing file lists 187 residential buildings on East 228 Street holding 629 homes, with 50 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on East 228 Street have injured 17 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 50 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 27. That 27 on quietness puts East 228 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 30 and cleanliness at 28. Transit ranks 55 and food nearby 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 63. 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 54.

The housing file puts 33% of the 629 homes on East 228 Street in rent stabilization, 210 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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