Buchanan Place, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Buchanan Place in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Buchanan Place in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (68) and transit (85). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Buchanan Place name illegal parking than any other category, 37 of them. The whole 311 file on Buchanan Place holds 298 reports, and illegal parking is 12% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 26 reports, and heat and hot water with 25. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Buchanan Place. About 128 reports per 100 homes sit on Buchanan Place, counting every category.
HPD has cited 63 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 27 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Buchanan Place is structure, at 25 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 23 more, and pests for 19. PLUTO counts 16 residential buildings and 232 homes on Buchanan Place, with 8 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 15 homes each.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 62, with quietness at 8. That 8 on quietness puts Buchanan Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 31 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 81 and tree cover at 34. Buchanan Place ranks 85 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Buchanan Place is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
About 81% of the 232 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 179 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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