Carter Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Carter Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Carter Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and food nearby (62). Quietness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Carter Avenue name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 28 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Carter Avenue holds 236 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 12% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (16 reports) and commercial noise (13). The file runs across 24 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Carter Avenue carries roughly 38 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 621 homes in 6 residential buildings on Carter Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Carter Avenue holds about 104 homes.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 98, with infrastructure at 92. That 92 on infrastructure puts Carter Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 95 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 94. Transit ranks 59 and tree cover 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Carter Avenue ranks 62 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Carter Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 99.
Of the 621 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Carter Avenue runs through Mount Hope and Claremont Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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