Burke Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Burke Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Burke Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (88) and tree cover (78). Street crime (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Burke Avenue, with 202 reports. Across every category, 807 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 90 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 77. Reports on Burke Avenue span 77 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,500 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
Burke Avenue carries 114 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Burke Avenue, 123 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 93 violations, then structure at 83. City housing records put 1,500 homes in 197 residential buildings on Burke Avenue, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 7.6 homes to a building.
NYPD records 70 people injured in crashes on Burke Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 77, with traffic safety at 41. A 41 on traffic safety places Burke Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 52 on the same scale, with housing at 44. The citywide frame puts transit at 72 and food nearby at 55. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Burke Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 88.
About 12% of the 1,500 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 173 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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