W 242 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does W 242 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against numbered streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 242 Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (72) and transit (83). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 242 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 86 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 52% of the 165 reports on file here. Heat and hot water follows with 55 reports, and commercial noise with 32. Reports on West 242 Street span 30 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 176 reports for every 100 homes on West 242 Street.
Inspectors have written 11 Class C violations on West 242 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 16 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 16 more, and structure for 10.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 32 among numbered streets and parking ranks 9. A 9 on parking places West 242 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 18 and traffic safety at 16 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 57 and tree cover 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 242 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 242 Street is infrastructure, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 96% of the 94 homes on file, 90 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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