Colgate Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Colgate Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Colgate Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (88) and tree cover (79). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Colgate Avenue, with 100 reports. The whole 311 file on Colgate Avenue holds 815 reports, and illegal parking is 12% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 78 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 70. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 955 homes on file, that is about 85 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Colgate Avenue carries 110 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Colgate Avenue, 67 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (48 violations) and bed bugs (32). City housing records put 955 homes in 81 residential buildings on Colgate Avenue, 37 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Colgate Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Colgate Avenue ranks 43 on parking and 12 on cleanliness. That 12 on cleanliness puts Colgate Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 29 and housing at 26. Against every street in the city, Colgate Avenue ranks 47 on transit and 45 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. 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 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 71% of the 955 homes on file, 674 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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