Lester Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Lester Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lester Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and transit (84). Tree cover (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The HPD file on Lester Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 25 homes in 11 residential buildings on Lester Street, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Lester Street holds about 2.3 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Lester Street have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, Lester Street ranks 65 on housing and 16 on parking. Lester Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. Quietness ranks 53 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 38. Food nearby ranks 51 and tree cover 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Lester Street, at 84. Lester Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
Of the 25 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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