Crescent Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Crescent Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.

Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Crescent Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (77) and food nearby (94). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Crescent Avenue name commercial noise than any other category, 40 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Crescent Avenue holds 282 reports, and commercial noise is 14% of it. Illegal dumping is the next most-filed at 20 reports, then illegal parking at 16. The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. About 209 reports per 100 homes sit on Crescent Avenue, counting every category.

Inspectors have written 22 Class C violations on Crescent Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 135 homes in 13 residential buildings on Crescent Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Crescent Avenue holds about 10 homes.

Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 72, with housing at 12. Crescent Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Traffic safety ranks 48 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 41. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 45 and transit at 29. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Crescent Avenue, at 94. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Crescent Avenue is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Crescent Avenue is infrastructure, at 77.

87% of the 135 homes recorded on Crescent Avenue are rent-stabilized, 118 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.

Nearest streets in Bronx

Crescent Avenue runs through Belmont, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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