Broadway, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Broadway in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 12, ranked against major corridors. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Broadway in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (22) and tree cover (91). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Broadway, with 502 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among major corridors. Across every category, 2,059 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 471 reports, and residential noise with 253. In all, 94 distinct 311 categories are represented on Broadway. The 311 file works out to about 122 reports for every 100 homes on Broadway.
Broadway carries 185 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 121 violations on file. Pests follows at 100 violations, then paint and lead at 69. The housing file lists 49 residential buildings on Broadway holding 1,688 homes, with 21 walk-ups and 18 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 34 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Broadway have injured 365 people since 2021.
Among major corridors, Broadway ranks 18 on infrastructure and 5 on quietness. A 5 on quietness places Broadway in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Traffic safety ranks 11 on the same scale, with housing at 9. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Broadway ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Broadway is parking, at 19.
The housing file puts 61% of the 1,688 homes on Broadway in rent stabilization, 975 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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Broadway runs through Riverdale and Kingsbridge, 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).