Benson Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Benson Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Benson Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (38) and transit (89). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Benson Street, with 97 reports. The whole 311 file on Benson Street holds 303 reports, and heat and hot water is 32% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then unsanitary condition at 18. Reports on Benson Street span 39 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Benson Street carries roughly 185 reports per 100 of them.
Benson Street carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 36 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Benson Street is pests, at 50 violations. Paint and lead follows at 26 violations, then doors at 14. PLUTO counts 37 residential buildings and 164 homes on Benson Street, with 9 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Benson Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Benson Street ranks 28 on quietness and 7 on cleanliness. That 7 on cleanliness puts Benson Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 17 and traffic safety at 14. Food nearby ranks 82 and tree cover 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Benson Street ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Benson Street is infrastructure, at 38.
Rent stabilization covers about 55% of the 164 homes on file, 90 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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