Beach Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Beach Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 40, 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 Beach Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (89) and tree cover (88). Quietness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Beach Avenue, with 363 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,548 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 279 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 122. The file runs across 68 distinct 311 categories in all. About 126 reports per 100 homes sit on Beach Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Beach Avenue carries 166 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Beach Avenue, 99 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (96 violations) and paint and lead (90). City housing records put 1,230 homes in 279 residential buildings on Beach Avenue, 85 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.4 homes each.
Reported crashes on Beach Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 67, with parking at 20. That 20 on parking puts Beach Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 27 and housing at 22. Food nearby ranks 59 and transit 49, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Beach Avenue ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Beach Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 89.
About 34% of the 1,230 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 420 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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Beach Avenue runs through Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River and Soundview & Clason Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).