Bay Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Bay Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Bay Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and food nearby (57). Transit (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 17 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bay Street.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 59 residential buildings and 84 homes on Bay Street, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among quiet residential streets, Bay Street ranks 79 on cleanliness and 35 on traffic safety. A 35 on traffic safety places Bay Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Parking ranks 79 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 39. Tree cover ranks 43 and transit 6, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bay Street ranks 57 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is where Bay Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 84.
None of the 84 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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