W 238 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does W 238 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 238 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and food nearby (79). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 238 Street, with 696 reports, and parking ranks 5 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 238 Street holds 1,439 reports, and illegal parking is 48% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (587 reports) and heat and hot water (279). The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. About 165 reports per 100 homes sit on West 238 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 238 Street carries 64 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 238 Street is paint and lead, at 73 violations. Doors accounts for 55 more, and structure for 36. PLUTO counts 42 residential buildings and 871 homes on West 238 Street, with 14 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 21 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 53 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 53, with quietness at 9. That 9 on quietness puts West 238 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 34 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 26. Transit ranks 73 and tree cover 63, 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. West 238 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 238 Street is cleanliness, at 89.
48% of the 871 homes recorded on West 238 Street are rent-stabilized, 417 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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