W 170 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does W 170 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 24, 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 170 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (73) and food nearby (74). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West 170 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 71 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among numbered streets. The 311 file on West 170 Street is led by heat and hot water, with 100 reports. Heat and hot water accounts for 28% of the 351 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 26 reports, and residential noise with 25. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 268 homes on file, that is about 131 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 170 Street carries 116 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 43 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 170 Street, 40 violations of it. Pests follows at 33 violations, then doors at 31. The housing file lists 7 residential buildings on West 170 Street holding 268 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 38 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 61 among numbered streets and housing ranks 6. A 6 on housing places West 170 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 36 and quietness at 26. Transit ranks 67 and tree cover 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 170 Street ranks 74 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 170 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 170 Street is cleanliness, at 73.
The housing file puts 74% of the 268 homes on West 170 Street in rent stabilization, 226 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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