W 162 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does W 162 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 162 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (56) and food nearby (88). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on West 162 Street, with 54 reports. Across every category, 242 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water follows with 40 reports, and illegal parking with 23. The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. About 186 reports per 100 homes sit on West 162 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 162 Street carries 55 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 42 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 162 Street is paint and lead, at 54 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (48 violations) and structure (30). 6 residential buildings on West 162 Street hold the 130 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 22 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 162 Street have injured 7 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 43 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 7. A 7 on quietness places West 162 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 23 and infrastructure at 15. Against every street in the city, West 162 Street ranks 64 on transit and 38 on tree cover. West 162 Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 162 Street is parking, at 56.
The housing file puts 24% of the 130 homes on West 162 Street in rent stabilization, 31 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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