W 259 Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 259 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against numbered streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts W 259 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and food nearby (69). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 259 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 42 of them, and parking ranks 3 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 35% of the 119 reports on file here. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (24 reports) and blocked driveway (12). In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 259 Street. The 311 file works out to about 107 reports for every 100 homes on West 259 Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on West 259 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 44 residential buildings and 111 homes on West 259 Street, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 259 Street holds about 2.5 homes.
Reported crashes on West 259 Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 89 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 13. That 13 on infrastructure puts West 259 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 35 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 16. Against every street in the city, West 259 Street ranks 55 on tree cover and 20 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 69. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 259 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 259 Street is cleanliness, at 93.
42% of the 111 homes recorded on West 259 Street are rent-stabilized, 47 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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