W 168 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does W 168 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 168 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (80). Quietness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 168 Street, with 187 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 215 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 87% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 88 reports, then illegal parking at 36. Reports on West 168 Street span 38 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 49 reports for every 100 homes on West 168 Street.
Inspectors have written 28 Class C violations on West 168 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 168 Street, 26 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 24 more, and heat and hot water for 16. The housing file lists 12 residential buildings on West 168 Street holding 440 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 37 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 168 Street ranks 82 on cleanliness and 32 on traffic safety. A 32 on traffic safety places West 168 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 64 and housing at 37 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 168 Street ranks 78 on transit and 58 on tree cover. West 168 Street ranks 80 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 168 Street is parking, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 87% of the 440 homes on file, 383 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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