Bartow Avenue, Bronx: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 84 out of 100. How does Bartow Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 84 out of 100.
Calm 96, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Bartow Avenue in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (100) and tree cover (80). Transit (50) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Bartow Avenue. 98 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 86 among busy avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal posting is the most-filed, with 43 reports. Across every category, 147 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal posting. After that the file runs to illegal parking (21 reports) and illegal dumping (17). The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 11,042 homes on file, that is about 1 reports per 100 homes.
Bartow Avenue carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 11,042 homes in 19 residential buildings on Bartow Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bartow Avenue holds about 581 homes.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 100, with traffic safety at 86. An 86 on traffic safety places Bartow Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 100 and cleanliness at 97. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and transit at 50. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 80. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Bartow Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bartow Avenue is quietness, at 100.
None of the 11,042 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.
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Bartow Avenue runs through Eastchester, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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