Bassford Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Bassford Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bassford Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (90) and food nearby (88). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Unsanitary condition leads the 311 file on Bassford Avenue, with 34 reports. Across every category, 251 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name unsanitary condition. After that the file runs to water system (24 reports) and heat and hot water (24). In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bassford Avenue. Set against the 163 homes on file, that is about 154 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 49 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 30 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 34 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 30 more, and windows for 20. City housing records put 163 homes in 28 residential buildings on Bassford Avenue, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.8 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Bassford Avenue ranks 45 on parking and 9 on quietness. That 9 on quietness puts Bassford Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 34 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 27. Against every street in the city, Bassford Avenue ranks 53 on transit and 43 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bassford Avenue is cleanliness, at 90.
About 67% of the 163 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 109 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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