Bussing Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Bussing Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Bussing Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (43) and tree cover (71). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Bussing Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 42 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 49 reports. Across every category, 190 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (22 reports) and blocked driveway (18). The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 216 homes on file, that is about 88 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Bussing Avenue. The housing file lists 125 residential buildings on Bussing Avenue holding 216 homes, with 17 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Bussing Avenue ranks 43 on infrastructure and 10 on parking. Bussing Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Housing ranks 42 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 29. Against every street in the city, Bussing Avenue ranks 49 on transit and 42 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 43.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 216 on Bussing Avenue.
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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Bussing Avenue runs through Wakefield, 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).