E 243 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does E 243 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts E 243 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and transit (68). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 243 Street, with 92 reports. The whole 311 file on East 243 Street holds 316 reports, and heat and hot water is 29% of it. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 35 reports, then electric at 22. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 243 Street. About 175 reports per 100 homes sit on East 243 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 116 Class C violations on East 243 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 64 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 243 Street, 85 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (68 violations) and structure (36). 33 residential buildings on East 243 Street hold the 181 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.5 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 86, with cleanliness at 60. That 60 on cleanliness puts East 243 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 78 and quietness at 75. Food nearby ranks 57 and tree cover 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 243 Street ranks 68 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 243 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 99.
67% of the 181 homes recorded on East 243 Street are rent-stabilized, 122 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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