Clay Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Clay Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against busy avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Clay Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (54) and tree cover (87). Housing (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Clay Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 423 of them. Residential noise accounts for 13% of the 3,275 reports on file here. Heat and hot water follows with 374 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 251. The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Clay Avenue carries roughly 179 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 607 Class C violations on Clay Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 33 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Clay Avenue, 597 violations of it. Pests follows at 558 violations, then structure at 347. The housing file lists 193 residential buildings on Clay Avenue holding 1,833 homes, with 136 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.5 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Clay Avenue have injured 65 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 52 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 8. That 8 on quietness puts Clay Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 41 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 19. Against every street in the city, Clay Avenue ranks 61 on transit and 53 on food nearby. Clay Avenue ranks 87 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Clay Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 54.
Rent stabilization covers about 52% of the 1,833 homes on file, 946 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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