City Island Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does City Island Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against busy avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts City Island Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (93) and tree cover (87). Transit (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on City Island Avenue, with 349 reports. Across every category, 857 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street condition (45 reports) and commercial noise (42). In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on City Island Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 341 reports for every 100 homes on City Island Avenue.
Inspectors have written 50 Class C violations on City Island Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 42 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 20 violations, then doors at 13. PLUTO counts 101 residential buildings and 251 homes on City Island Avenue, with 24 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
NYPD records 22 people injured in crashes on City Island Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, City Island Avenue ranks 73 on traffic safety and 20 on infrastructure. A 20 on infrastructure places City Island Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 60 and parking at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 6. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band City Island Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where City Island Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 93.
The housing file puts 2% of the 251 homes on City Island Avenue in rent stabilization, 6 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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