W 165 Street, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 20 out of 100. How does W 165 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 20 out of 100.
Calm 4, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts W 165 Street in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (7) and transit (57). The lowest of the ten is street crime (1).
On the record
More 311 reports on West 165 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 59 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 20% of the 299 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 55 reports, then unsanitary condition at 22. In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 165 Street. About 296 reports per 100 homes sit on West 165 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 165 Street carries 60 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 59 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 165 Street is pests, at 27 violations. Doors accounts for 19 more, and paint and lead for 17. The housing file lists 7 residential buildings on West 165 Street holding 101 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 165 Street have injured 18 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 6 among numbered streets and housing ranks 3. A 3 on housing places West 165 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 6 and cleanliness at 3. Against every street in the city, West 165 Street ranks 51 on food nearby and 37 on tree cover. West 165 Street ranks 57 on transit, 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 165 Street is quietness, at 7.
About 39% of the 101 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 39 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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W 165 Street runs through Highbridge, 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).