Barkley Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Barkley Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.

Calm 26, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Barkley Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (89) and food nearby (65). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Barkley Avenue, with 60 reports. Across every category, 246 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 60 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 14. The file runs across 29 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 155 homes on file, that is about 159 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited 13 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 107 residential buildings on Barkley Avenue holding 155 homes, with 9 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Reported crashes on Barkley Avenue have injured 5 people since 2021.

Among smaller avenues, Barkley Avenue ranks 28 on traffic safety and 2 on parking. That 2 on parking puts Barkley Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 20 on the same scale, with housing at 14. Against every street in the city, Barkley Avenue ranks 58 on tree cover and 25 on transit. Barkley Avenue ranks 65 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.

None of the 155 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Bronx

Barkley Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, 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).

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