W 261 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does W 261 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against numbered streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts W 261 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and tree cover (54). Infrastructure (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 261 Street name street condition than any other category, 15 of them. Street condition accounts for 18% of the 85 reports on file here. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then illegal parking at 11. Reports on West 261 Street span 26 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 92 homes on file, that is about 92 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on West 261 Street. PLUTO counts 56 residential buildings and 92 homes on West 261 Street, with 8 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on West 261 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 82 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 4. That 4 on traffic safety puts West 261 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 62 and parking at 35. Against every street in the city, West 261 Street ranks 25 on transit and 23 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on West 261 Street, at 54. West 261 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where West 261 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 92.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 92 on West 261 Street.
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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