College Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does College Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts College Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (80) and tree cover (83). Housing (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on College Avenue, with 416 reports. Across every category, 2,207 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (344 reports) and residential noise (187). The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. About 127 reports per 100 homes sit on College Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on College Avenue carries 471 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 27 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on College Avenue is pests, at 320 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (271 violations) and doors (199). The housing file lists 151 residential buildings on College Avenue holding 1,743 homes, with 82 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
NYPD records 21 people injured in crashes on College Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 77, with quietness at 18. College Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts parking at 34 and infrastructure at 30 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, College Avenue ranks 79 on transit and 72 on food nearby. College Avenue ranks 83 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on College Avenue is traffic safety, at 80.
61% of the 1,743 homes recorded on College Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,047 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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