Close Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Close Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Close Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (29) and food nearby (55). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Close Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 12 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 60 reports on file here. Derelict vehicles is the next most-filed, with 12 reports. The file runs across 28 distinct 311 categories in all. About 91 reports per 100 homes sit on Close Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Close Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 29, with quietness at 6. A 6 on quietness places Close Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 24 and cleanliness at 7. Against every street in the city, Close Avenue ranks 53 on transit and 38 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 55. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 29.
100% of the 66 homes recorded on Close Avenue are rent-stabilized, 66 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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Close Avenue runs through Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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