W 251 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does W 251 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts W 251 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and transit (49). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 251 Street, with 25 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among numbered streets. Across every category, 102 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (18 reports) and residential noise (11). Reports on West 251 Street span 26 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 123 reports for every 100 homes on West 251 Street.
Inspectors have written 21 Class C violations on West 251 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 251 Street, 14 violations of it.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 69 among numbered streets and housing ranks 5. West 251 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Traffic safety ranks 57 on the same scale, with quietness at 28. Food nearby ranks 18 and tree cover 5, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 251 Street ranks 49 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where West 251 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 94.
84% of the 83 homes recorded on West 251 Street are rent-stabilized, 70 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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