Claflin Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Claflin Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Claflin Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and transit (62). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Claflin Avenue, with 135 reports. The whole 311 file on Claflin Avenue holds 938 reports, and heat and hot water is 14% of it. Residential noise follows with 100 reports, and illegal parking with 82. In all, 46 distinct 311 categories are represented on Claflin Avenue. About 142 reports per 100 homes sit on Claflin Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 207 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 31 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Claflin Avenue is paint and lead, at 130 violations. Pests follows at 106 violations, then doors at 79. The housing file lists 47 residential buildings on Claflin Avenue holding 662 homes, with 14 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 76, with cleanliness at 13. A 13 on cleanliness places Claflin Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 40 and quietness at 22 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 56 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Claflin Avenue ranks 62 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Claflin Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Claflin Avenue is traffic safety, at 92.
The housing file puts 65% of the 662 homes on Claflin Avenue in rent stabilization, 422 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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