W 197 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does W 197 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against numbered streets. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 197 Street in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (61) and transit (68). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 197 Street, with 413 reports, and parking ranks 1 among numbered streets. Across every category, 630 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 66% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (123 reports) and residential noise (101). Reports on West 197 Street span 42 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 197 Street carries roughly 303 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 197 Street carries 48 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 197 Street is pests, at 23 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (22 violations) and doors (17). City housing records put 208 homes in 11 residential buildings on West 197 Street, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 197 Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 27 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 5. West 197 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 21 and housing at 7 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 197 Street ranks 48 on tree cover and 39 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 68. West 197 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 61.
73% of the 208 homes recorded on West 197 Street are rent-stabilized, 152 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 197 Street runs through Kingsbridge Heights and Bedford Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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