Baychester Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Baychester Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Baychester Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (66) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Baychester Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Baychester Avenue have injured 203 people, and traffic safety ranks 1 among busy avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 197 of them. Across every category, 838 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 93 reports, and heat and hot water with 84. The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. About 127 reports per 100 homes sit on Baychester Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Baychester Avenue carries 56 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Baychester Avenue, 60 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (45 violations) and windows (26). The housing file lists 303 residential buildings on Baychester Avenue holding 659 homes, with 37 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Baychester Avenue ranks 58 on quietness and 8 on infrastructure. An 8 on infrastructure places Baychester Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 25 and parking at 23 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 55 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Baychester Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
19% of the 659 homes recorded on Baychester Avenue are rent-stabilized, 125 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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