Cranford Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Cranford Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 36, 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 Cranford Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (66) and transit (67). Street crime (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Cranford Avenue, with 22 reports. Across every category, 117 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name blocked driveway. Heat and hot water follows with 18 reports, and illegal parking with 15. The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 232 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 28 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cranford Avenue is pests, at 36 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (21 violations) and paint and lead (13). City housing records put 232 homes in 76 residential buildings on Cranford Avenue, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on Cranford Avenue have injured 7 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 57, with housing at 12. That 12 on housing puts Cranford Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 55 and traffic safety at 30 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Cranford Avenue ranks 58 on tree cover and 48 on food nearby. Cranford Avenue ranks 67 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Cranford Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Cranford Avenue is infrastructure, at 66.
About 9% of the 232 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 20 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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