Continental Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Continental Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Continental Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (91) and transit (83). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Continental Avenue, with 153 reports, and parking ranks 9 among smaller avenues. Residential noise follows with 61 reports, and blocked driveway with 29. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. About 93 reports per 100 homes sit on Continental Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Continental Avenue, 11 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 11 violations. City housing records put 151 homes in 41 residential buildings on Continental Avenue, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Continental Avenue holds about 3.7 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 75 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 17. Continental Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 48 and housing at 32. Against every street in the city, Continental Avenue ranks 53 on food nearby and 15 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Continental Avenue, at 83. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Continental Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 36% of the 151 homes on file, 55 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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