Croes Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Croes Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Croes Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (48) and tree cover (74). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Croes Avenue, with 97 reports. Across every category, 740 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name residential noise. General construction and plumbing follows with 80 reports, and heat and hot water with 74. The file runs across 51 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 561 homes on file, that is about 132 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 78 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Croes Avenue, 118 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 71 violations, then bed bugs at 61. The housing file lists 163 residential buildings on Croes Avenue holding 561 homes, with 112 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
NYPD records 16 people injured in crashes on Croes Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Croes Avenue ranks 37 on parking and 5 on housing. A 5 on housing places Croes Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 31 and quietness at 6. Against every street in the city, Croes Avenue ranks 54 on transit and 45 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Croes Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 48.
The housing file puts 7% of the 561 homes on Croes Avenue in rent stabilization, 40 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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Croes Avenue runs through Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River and Soundview & Clason Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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