Simpson Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Simpson Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Simpson Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (61) and transit (90). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Simpson Street, with 181 reports. The whole 311 file on Simpson Street holds 815 reports, and residential noise is 22% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 168 reports, then illegal parking at 65. Reports on Simpson Street span 59 distinct 311 categories. About 88 reports per 100 homes sit on Simpson Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on Simpson Street carries 116 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Simpson Street, 52 violations of it. Doors accounts for 44 more, and paint and lead for 32. 131 residential buildings on Simpson Street hold the 928 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.1 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Simpson Street ranks 33 on cleanliness and 15 on housing. Simpson Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Quietness ranks 28 on the same scale, with parking at 21. Tree cover ranks 78 and food nearby 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 61.
The housing file puts 47% of the 928 homes on Simpson Street in rent stabilization, 438 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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Simpson Street runs through Longwood and Crotona Park East, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).