Benedict Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Benedict Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Benedict Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (89) and food nearby (85). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Benedict Avenue, with 12 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Benedict Avenue holds 108 reports, and heat and hot water is 11% of it. Behind it sits illegal fireworks, with 10 reports. Reports on Benedict Avenue span 37 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Benedict Avenue carries roughly 44 reports per 100 of them.
Benedict Avenue carries 8 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 24 violations on file. Pests accounts for 21 more, and bed bugs for 17. 47 residential buildings on Benedict Avenue hold the 244 homes on file, 19 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.2 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Benedict Avenue ranks 72 on parking and 23 on housing. Benedict Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 59 and traffic safety at 54. The citywide frame puts transit at 82 and tree cover at 46. Benedict Avenue ranks 85 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
47% of the 244 homes recorded on Benedict Avenue are rent-stabilized, 114 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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