Bailey Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Bailey Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bailey Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (47) and tree cover (87). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Bailey Avenue, with 513 reports. Across every category, 2,267 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 397 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 337. The file runs across 81 distinct 311 categories in all. About 117 reports per 100 homes sit on Bailey Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 274 Class C violations on Bailey Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bailey Avenue is doors, at 146 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (136 violations) and pests (108). City housing records put 1,938 homes in 84 residential buildings on Bailey Avenue, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.
Reported crashes on Bailey Avenue have injured 103 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Bailey Avenue ranks 31 on infrastructure and 24 on parking. Bailey Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 30 and traffic safety at 25. Transit ranks 69 and food nearby 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Bailey Avenue, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Bailey Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Bailey Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 47.
47% of the 1,938 homes recorded on Bailey Avenue are rent-stabilized, 897 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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