Bronx River Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 23 out of 100. How does Bronx River Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 23 out of 100.
Calm 12, ranked against busy avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Bronx River Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (39) and tree cover (79). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bronx River Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 544 of them. The whole 311 file on Bronx River Avenue holds 1,417 reports, and heat and hot water is 38% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (469 reports) and residential noise (112). The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 622 homes on file, that is about 228 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Bronx River Avenue carries 83 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bronx River Avenue is pests, at 68 violations. Bed bugs follows at 49 violations, then paint and lead at 46. PLUTO counts 107 residential buildings and 622 homes on Bronx River Avenue, with 75 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.8 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 90 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 23 among busy avenues and parking ranks 1. That 1 on parking puts Bronx River Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 11 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 4. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 31. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Bronx River Avenue, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where Bronx River Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 39.
The housing file puts 45% of the 622 homes on Bronx River Avenue in rent stabilization, 278 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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Bronx River Avenue runs through Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River, Soundview & Clason Point and West Farms, 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).