Cromwell Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Cromwell Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.

Calm 12, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Cromwell Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (24) and transit (89). Street crime (4) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Cromwell Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 78 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 22% of the 362 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 61 reports, then vehicle noise at 51. The file runs across 37 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 208 homes on file, that is about 174 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on Cromwell Avenue carries 60 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 29 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cromwell Avenue is doors, at 33 violations. Pests follows at 19 violations, then structure at 15. The housing file lists 4 residential buildings on Cromwell Avenue holding 208 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 52 homes each.

Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Among smaller avenues, Cromwell Avenue ranks 19 on infrastructure and 4 on housing. Cromwell Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Parking ranks 16 on the same scale, with quietness at 6. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 82 and tree cover at 48. Cromwell Avenue ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Cromwell Avenue is scored inside.

Traffic safety is where Cromwell Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 24.

Rent stabilization covers about 98% of the 208 homes on file, 204 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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