W 239 Street, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does W 239 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts W 239 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and food nearby (59). Transit (43) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 239 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 161 of them. The whole 311 file on West 239 Street holds 333 reports, and illegal parking is 48% of it. Vehicle noise follows with 58 reports, and residential noise with 56. In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 239 Street. The 311 file works out to about 40 reports for every 100 homes on West 239 Street.
Inspectors have written 21 Class C violations on West 239 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 826 homes in 21 residential buildings on West 239 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 239 Street holds about 39 homes.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on West 239 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 239 Street ranks 90 on traffic safety and 44 on quietness. That 44 on quietness puts West 239 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 81 on the same scale, with parking at 45. Tree cover ranks 57 and transit 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 239 Street ranks 59 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 239 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 239 Street is infrastructure, at 91.
About 30% of the 826 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 145 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 239 Street runs through Riverdale and Kingsbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).