Baychester Avenue, Bronx NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026

Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Baychester Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.

Calm 26, 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 14% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (74) and tree cover (96); traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

Crashes are the mark against Baychester Avenue. 203 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among busy avenues. HPD has cited 68 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 197 reports. Tree cover ranks 96, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 60 against every street in the city. Only about 19% of the 659 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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