Barnes Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Barnes Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Barnes Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (52) and tree cover (94). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Barnes Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 659 of them. Across every category, 4,145 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 470 reports, then heat and hot water at 328. Reports on Barnes Avenue span 85 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 148 reports for every 100 homes on Barnes Avenue.
Barnes Avenue carries 777 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 28 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Barnes Avenue, 546 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (331 violations) and doors (192). PLUTO counts 576 residential buildings and 2,794 homes on Barnes Avenue, with 175 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.9 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Barnes Avenue have injured 121 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 36 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 19. A 19 on quietness places Barnes Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 32 on the same scale, with parking at 24. Transit ranks 72 and food nearby 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where Barnes Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 52.
Rent stabilization covers about 35% of the 2,794 homes on file, 979 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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Barnes Avenue runs through Williamsbridge, Wakefield and Allerton, 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).