Chaffee Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Chaffee Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 12, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Chaffee Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and food nearby (23). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 14 distinct 311 categories are represented on Chaffee Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Chaffee Avenue. PLUTO counts 19 residential buildings and 33 homes on Chaffee Avenue, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Chaffee Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 67 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 51. That 51 on cleanliness puts Chaffee Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 65 on the same scale, with quietness at 61. Against every street in the city, Chaffee Avenue ranks 12 on tree cover and 6 on transit. Chaffee Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Chaffee Avenue is parking, at 72.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 33 on Chaffee 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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