Carpenter Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Carpenter Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Carpenter Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (74) and tree cover (84). Quietness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Carpenter Avenue, with 532 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 2,313 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 456 reports, then illegal parking at 202. The file runs across 82 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,052 homes on file, that is about 113 reports per 100 homes.
Carpenter Avenue carries 332 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Carpenter Avenue is pests, at 321 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (251 violations) and structure (100). The housing file lists 331 residential buildings on Carpenter Avenue holding 2,052 homes, with 89 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 33 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 72 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 14. Carpenter Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 47 and housing at 17. The citywide frame puts transit at 76 and food nearby at 63. Carpenter Avenue ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 59% of the 2,052 homes on file, 1,204 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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Carpenter Avenue runs through Wakefield and Williamsbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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