Boston Road, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Boston Road in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Boston Road in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (64) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Boston Road. Reported crashes here have injured 729 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 628 of them. The whole 311 file on Boston Road holds 3,290 reports, and heat and hot water is 19% of it. Residential noise follows with 474 reports, and illegal parking with 316. In all, 101 distinct 311 categories are represented on Boston Road. Set against the 3,092 homes on file, that is about 106 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Boston Road carries 718 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Boston Road, 356 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 296 more, and doors for 285. City housing records put 3,092 homes in 130 residential buildings on Boston Road, 56 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 21 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Boston Road holds about 24 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Boston Road ranks 43 on cleanliness and 8 on housing. That 8 on housing puts Boston Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 31 and quietness at 21. Against every street in the city, Boston Road ranks 57 on transit and 55 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Boston Road, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Boston Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 64.
The housing file puts 68% of the 3,092 homes on Boston Road in rent stabilization, 2,020 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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Boston Road runs through Eastchester, Allerton and Morrisania, 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).