Avenue Street John, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Avenue Street John in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue Street John in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and transit (78). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Avenue Street John, with 98 reports. Across every category, 651 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 45 reports, then unsanitary condition at 40. Reports on Avenue Street John span 37 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue Street John carries roughly 142 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 153 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 33 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 80 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (75 violations) and heat and hot water (60). The housing file lists 29 residential buildings on Avenue Street John holding 460 homes, with 14 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 76 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 14. Avenue Street John sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts traffic safety at 46 and cleanliness at 34 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 69 and tree cover 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue Street John is infrastructure, at 98.
The housing file puts 64% of the 460 homes on Avenue Street John in rent stabilization, 294 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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