Brook Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Brook Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.

Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Brook Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (71) and tree cover (86). Street crime (20) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Brook Avenue name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 745 of them. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 47% of the 1,574 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (281 reports) and illegal parking (253). The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,951 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited 112 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Brook Avenue, 96 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 67 more, and doors for 52. The housing file lists 76 residential buildings on Brook Avenue holding 2,951 homes, with 28 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 39 homes to a building.

NYPD records 77 people injured in crashes on Brook Avenue since 2021.

Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 66, with quietness at 35. A 35 on quietness places Brook Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Housing ranks 52 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 48. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and transit at 61. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. Brook Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 71.

The housing file puts 15% of the 2,951 homes on Brook Avenue in rent stabilization, 409 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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