Bradford Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Bradford Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 57, 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 Bradford Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (55). Housing (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bradford Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 48 of them. Across every category, 66 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 73% of them name illegal parking. Maintenance or facility is the next most-filed at 19 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 14. Reports on Bradford Avenue span 38 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 137 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
Bradford Avenue carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Bradford Avenue, 13 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (12 violations) and structure (11). 39 residential buildings on Bradford Avenue hold the 137 homes on file, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.5 homes each.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Bradford Avenue have injured no one.
Among smaller avenues, Bradford Avenue ranks 92 on infrastructure and 26 on quietness. That 26 on quietness puts Bradford Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 86 on the same scale, with parking at 39. Transit ranks 38 and tree cover 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bradford Avenue ranks 55 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is where Bradford Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 25% of the 137 homes on file, 34 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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