Light Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Light Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Light Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (88) and transit (85). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Light Street name illegal parking than any other category, 85 of them, and parking ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. The whole 311 file on Light Street holds 222 reports, and illegal parking is 38% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 16 reports, and derelict vehicles with 15. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Light Street carries roughly 326 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on Light Street is pests, at 14 violations. Behind it the file holds structure, at 10 violations. 42 residential buildings on Light Street hold the 68 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Light Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 49, with housing at 9. That 9 on housing puts Light Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 35 and traffic safety at 10 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 62 and tree cover 25, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Light Street, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Light Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 88.
None of the 68 homes on file 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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