Creston Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Creston Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Creston Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (78) and transit (92). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Creston Avenue, with 1,800 reports. Across every category, 6,388 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 835 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 512. The file runs across 86 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 4,404 homes on file, that is about 145 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1,390 Class C violations on Creston Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 32 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Creston Avenue, 691 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 613 violations, then doors at 527. PLUTO counts 164 residential buildings and 4,404 homes on Creston Avenue, with 61 walk-ups and 42 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Creston Avenue holds about 27 homes.
Since 2021, 75 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 75 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 6. That 6 on quietness puts Creston Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 69 and cleanliness at 40. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 89 and food nearby at 88. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Creston Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is where Creston Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 78.
About 78% of the 4,404 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 3,389 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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Creston Avenue runs through Fordham Heights, Bedford Park and Mount Hope, 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).