Brush Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 17 out of 100. How does Brush Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 17 out of 100.
Calm 10, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Brush Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (46) and tree cover (64). Traffic safety (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Brush Avenue, with 28 reports. Across every category, 89 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking follows with 17 reports, and vehicle noise with 17. Reports on Brush Avenue span 30 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 371 reports for every 100 homes on Brush Avenue.
The HPD file on Brush Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 17 residential buildings on Brush Avenue hold the 24 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Brush Avenue have injured 19 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Brush Avenue ranks 26 on housing and 1 on parking. A 1 on parking places Brush Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 6 on the same scale, with quietness at 2. Against every street in the city, Brush Avenue ranks 35 on food nearby and 13 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 64. Brush Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 46.
None of the 24 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Brush Avenue runs through Castle Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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