Crotona Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Crotona Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Crotona Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (76) and tree cover (86). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Crotona Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 551 of them. The whole 311 file on Crotona Avenue holds 2,614 reports, and heat and hot water is 21% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 456 reports, then unsanitary condition at 239. The file runs across 85 distinct 311 categories in all. About 129 reports per 100 homes sit on Crotona Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Crotona Avenue carries 616 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 30 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Crotona Avenue, 447 violations of it. Doors accounts for 397 more, and paint and lead for 347. City housing records put 2,034 homes in 185 residential buildings on Crotona Avenue, 93 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 14 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Reported crashes on Crotona Avenue have injured 112 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 66 among busy avenues and housing ranks 7. A 7 on housing places Crotona Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 30 and cleanliness at 14 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Crotona Avenue, at 86. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Crotona Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
The housing file puts 47% of the 2,034 homes on Crotona Avenue in rent stabilization, 890 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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