W 256 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does W 256 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts W 256 Street in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (80) and food nearby (65). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 256 Street, with 95 reports. Water system is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 14. The file runs across 23 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 67 homes on file, that is about 107 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on West 256 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 46 residential buildings on West 256 Street hold the 67 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 30, with parking at 5. West 256 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts quietness at 28 and cleanliness at 5 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 48 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
Of the 67 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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 256 Street runs through Riverdale, 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).