E 234 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does E 234 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts E 234 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (95) and transit (61). Housing (6) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on East 234 Street, with 186 reports. The whole 311 file on East 234 Street holds 774 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (177 reports) and blocked driveway (50). The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, East 234 Street carries roughly 105 reports per 100 of them.

Inspectors have written 199 Class C violations on East 234 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 27 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 106 violations on file. Pests follows at 91 violations, then doors at 58. City housing records put 737 homes in 139 residential buildings on East 234 Street, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 234 Street holds about 5.3 homes.

Reported crashes on East 234 Street have injured 15 people since 2021.

Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 82, with cleanliness at 21. East 234 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Traffic safety ranks 53 on the same scale, with parking at 41. Against every street in the city, East 234 Street ranks 60 on tree cover and 59 on food nearby. East 234 Street ranks 61 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 234 Street is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on East 234 Street is infrastructure, at 95.

The housing file puts 51% of the 737 homes on East 234 Street in rent stabilization, 379 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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