Briggs Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Briggs Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against busy avenues. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Briggs Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (84) and transit (92). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Briggs Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 581 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 25% of the 2,330 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (445 reports) and heat and hot water (379). Reports on Briggs Avenue span 80 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,366 homes on file, that is about 171 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Briggs Avenue carries 248 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 18 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Briggs Avenue is pests, at 150 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 149 more, and doors for 103. City housing records put 1,366 homes in 147 residential buildings on Briggs Avenue, 54 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 20, with parking at 11. Briggs Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. Infrastructure ranks 20 on the same scale, with housing at 14. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 73 and food nearby at 63. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Briggs Avenue, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Briggs Avenue is traffic safety, at 84.
About 68% of the 1,366 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 933 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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