Byron Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Byron Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Byron Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and transit (81). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Byron Avenue, with 34 reports. Across every category, 224 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (27 reports) and heat and hot water (16). The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 209 homes on file, that is about 107 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on Byron Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Byron Avenue, 19 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 13 more, and paint and lead for 12. 90 residential buildings on Byron Avenue hold the 209 homes on file, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 68, with parking at 18. Byron Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 38 and quietness at 20. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and tree cover at 36. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
16% of the 209 homes recorded on Byron Avenue are rent-stabilized, 33 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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