Birchall Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Birchall Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Birchall Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (64) and transit (88). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Birchall Avenue, with 78 reports. Across every category, 235 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (37 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (28). In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on Birchall Avenue. About 204 reports per 100 homes sit on Birchall Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 47 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 41 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Birchall Avenue, 47 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (33 violations) and structure (27). City housing records put 115 homes in 4 residential buildings on Birchall Avenue, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 29 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Birchall Avenue ranks 53 on traffic safety and 5 on quietness. That 5 on quietness puts Birchall Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 16 and infrastructure at 14 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 45 and tree cover 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Birchall Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Birchall Avenue is parking, at 64.
Rent stabilization covers about 96% of the 115 homes on file, 110 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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