Colonial Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Colonial Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Colonial Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and transit (89). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Colonial Avenue name smoking or vaping than any other category, 173 of them. The whole 311 file on Colonial Avenue holds 478 reports, and smoking or vaping is 36% of it. After that the file runs to indoor air quality (144 reports) and residential noise (125). In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on Colonial Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Colonial Avenue carries roughly 180 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 34 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 34 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 30 more, and pests for 29. The housing file lists 47 residential buildings on Colonial Avenue holding 265 homes, with 15 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.6 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 68 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 6. That 6 on housing puts Colonial Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 23 and parking at 10 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Colonial Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 34 on tree cover. Colonial Avenue ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 265 homes on file, 86 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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