Barker Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Barker Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Barker Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and transit (79). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Barker Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 343 of them. The whole 311 file on Barker Avenue holds 1,989 reports, and residential noise is 17% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 296 reports, and illegal parking with 204. Reports on Barker Avenue span 61 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 152 reports for every 100 homes on Barker Avenue.
Barker Avenue carries 347 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 27 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Barker Avenue, 191 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 187 more, and structure for 104. City housing records put 1,308 homes in 147 residential buildings on Barker Avenue, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 8.9 homes each.
Reported crashes on Barker Avenue have injured 9 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 64, with quietness at 11. An 11 on quietness places Barker Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 53 and parking at 22. Tree cover ranks 79 and food nearby 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Barker Avenue, at 79. Barker Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 1,308 homes on file, 141 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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Barker Avenue runs through Allerton and Williamsbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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