Bergen Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Bergen Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against busy avenues. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Bergen Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and transit (93). Street crime (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bergen Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 75 of them. The whole 311 file on Bergen Avenue holds 134 reports, and heat and hot water is 56% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 31 reports, then plumbing at 29. In all, 44 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bergen Avenue. About 16 reports per 100 homes sit on Bergen Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Bergen Avenue carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bergen Avenue is structure, at 49 violations. Doors follows at 38 violations, then paint and lead at 33. City housing records put 829 homes in 5 residential buildings on Bergen Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bergen Avenue holds about 166 homes.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Bergen Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 87 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 68. A 68 on cleanliness places Bergen Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 86 and traffic safety at 79. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 91 and tree cover at 50. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. Bergen Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is where Bergen Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 97.
24% of the 829 homes recorded on Bergen Avenue are rent-stabilized, 161 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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Bergen Avenue runs through Melrose and Mott Haven, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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