Colden Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Colden Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against busy avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Colden Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and tree cover (87). Parking (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Colden Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 569 of them, and parking ranks 8 among busy avenues. Residential noise accounts for 82% of the 695 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal parking (420 reports) and blocked driveway (116). In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on Colden Avenue. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on Colden Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 22 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Colden Avenue is bed bugs, at 47 violations. Pests follows at 46 violations, then doors at 10. City housing records put 901 homes in 334 residential buildings on Colden Avenue, 89 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 83 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 46. That 46 on infrastructure puts Colden Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 79 on the same scale, with housing at 66. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 59 and transit at 51. Colden 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.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
About 15% of the 901 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 131 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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