Bell Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Bell Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Bell Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (83) and transit (41). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Bell Avenue, with 16 reports. Across every category, 35 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name blocked driveway. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed, with 13 reports. The file runs across 23 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Bell Avenue carries roughly 56 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Bell Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 31 residential buildings on Bell Avenue hold the 62 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 66 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 14. That 14 on housing puts Bell Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 52 on the same scale, with parking at 27. Against every street in the city, Bell Avenue ranks 12 on food nearby and 12 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Bell Avenue, at 41. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
None of the 62 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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Bell Avenue runs through Eastchester, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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