3 Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 3 Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against major corridors. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 3 Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (63) and tree cover (97). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on 3 Avenue, with 442 reports. The whole 311 file on 3 Avenue holds 3,397 reports, and residential noise is 13% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (401 reports) and illegal parking (374). Reports on 3 Avenue span 95 distinct 311 categories. About 68 reports per 100 homes sit on 3 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 3 Avenue carries 498 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 3 Avenue is pests, at 245 violations. Doors follows at 183 violations, then paint and lead at 154. The housing file lists 148 residential buildings on 3 Avenue holding 4,969 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 20 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 34 homes each.
Reported crashes on 3 Avenue have injured 525 people since 2021.
Against major corridors, parking comes in at 38, with housing at 10. That 10 on housing puts 3 Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Traffic safety ranks 31 on the same scale, with quietness at 27. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 80 and transit at 53. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 3 Avenue, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 63.
Rent stabilization covers about 50% of the 4,969 homes on file, 2,204 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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