Blackstone Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Blackstone Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 81, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Blackstone Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (100) and food nearby (51). Housing (36) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Blackstone Avenue, with 28 reports. Across every category, 54 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 13 reports. Reports on Blackstone Avenue span 26 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Blackstone Avenue carries roughly 12 reports per 100 of them.
Blackstone Avenue carries 9 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Blackstone Avenue is doors, at 14 violations. Electrical follows at 12 violations, then structure at 11. The housing file lists 18 residential buildings on Blackstone Avenue holding 433 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 24 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Blackstone Avenue ranks 99 on cleanliness and 71 on quietness. Blackstone Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts parking at 92 and traffic safety at 81 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 39 and transit 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 51. 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 100.
52% of the 433 homes recorded on Blackstone Avenue are rent-stabilized, 223 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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Blackstone Avenue runs through Riverdale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).