W 172 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does W 172 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 172 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (90) and transit (78). Traffic safety (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 172 Street, with 47 reports. The whole 311 file on West 172 Street holds 85 reports, and heat and hot water is 55% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then elevator at 13. The file runs across 28 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 128 homes on file, that is about 66 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 172 Street, 13 violations of it. Doors follows at 10 violations, then paint and lead at 10. The housing file lists 3 residential buildings on West 172 Street holding 128 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 43 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 172 Street have injured 13 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 82 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 12. A 12 on quietness places West 172 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 42 and housing at 35. Against every street in the city, West 172 Street ranks 73 on food nearby and 31 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 172 Street, at 78. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 172 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 172 Street is infrastructure, at 90.
99% of the 128 homes recorded on West 172 Street are rent-stabilized, 124 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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