Cedar Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 30 out of 100. How does Cedar Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 30 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against busy avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Cedar Avenue in the bottom 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (58) and transit (47). Quietness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Cedar Avenue, with 123 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 552 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (62 reports) and heat and hot water (53). In all, 54 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cedar Avenue. Set against the 512 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 56 Class C violations on Cedar Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Cedar Avenue, 28 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (11 violations) and doors (10). City housing records put 512 homes in 57 residential buildings on Cedar Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Cedar Avenue holds about 9 homes.
Since 2021, 30 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 33, with infrastructure at 19. A 19 on infrastructure places Cedar Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 32 and cleanliness at 23. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 40 and food nearby at 31. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Cedar Avenue, at 47. Cedar Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Cedar Avenue is parking, at 58.
81% of the 512 homes recorded on Cedar Avenue are rent-stabilized, 417 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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Cedar Avenue runs through University Heights & Fordham and University Heights & Morris Heights, 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).