W 169 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does W 169 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 169 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (74) and food nearby (79). Housing (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Water system is the most-filed complaint on West 169 Street, with 46 reports. The whole 311 file on West 169 Street holds 228 reports, and water system is 20% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (39 reports) and residential noise (35). Reports on West 169 Street span 33 distinct 311 categories. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on West 169 Street, counting every category.
West 169 Street carries 32 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 169 Street is paint and lead, at 18 violations. Pests follows at 16 violations, then structure at 16. 17 residential buildings on West 169 Street hold the 296 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 17 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 63, with traffic safety at 32. That 32 on traffic safety puts West 169 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 43 and infrastructure at 41 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 73 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where West 169 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 74.
About 49% of the 296 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 163 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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