E 242 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does E 242 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against numbered streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 242 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (63) and transit (71). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 242 Street, with 1,167 reports. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 81 reports, then plumbing at 36. In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 242 Street. Divided by the homes on file, East 242 Street carries roughly 158 reports per 100 of them.
East 242 Street carries 135 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 40 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 242 Street, 71 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (71 violations) and plumbing (47). PLUTO counts 71 residential buildings and 334 homes on East 242 Street, with 19 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.7 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 242 Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 242 Street ranks 53 on cleanliness and 20 on parking. East 242 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts traffic safety at 41 and quietness at 40 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 59 and tree cover 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 242 Street ranks 71 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 242 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 63.
57% of the 334 homes recorded on East 242 Street are rent-stabilized, 190 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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