Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Bainbridge Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bainbridge Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (61) and transit (91). Housing (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Bainbridge Avenue, with 362 reports. Across every category, 2,899 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 12% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 286 reports, then illegal parking at 197. In all, 88 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bainbridge Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 119 reports for every 100 homes on Bainbridge Avenue.
The HPD file on Bainbridge Avenue carries 567 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Bainbridge Avenue, 426 violations of it. Pests follows at 390 violations, then doors at 229. PLUTO counts 168 residential buildings and 2,445 homes on Bainbridge Avenue, with 59 walk-ups and 22 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Bainbridge Avenue holds about 15 homes.
Since 2021, 97 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 37, with quietness at 17. A 17 on quietness places Bainbridge Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 37 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 35. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 88 and food nearby at 78. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Bainbridge Avenue, at 91. Bainbridge Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bainbridge Avenue is parking, at 61.
About 78% of the 2,445 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,908 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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Bainbridge Avenue runs through Norwood, Bedford Park and University Heights & Fordham, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).