Cruger Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Cruger Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cruger Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and transit (87). Housing (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Cruger Avenue, with 788 reports. The whole 311 file on Cruger Avenue holds 2,867 reports, and heat and hot water is 27% of it. Residential noise follows with 774 reports, and illegal parking with 226. In all, 81 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cruger Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Cruger Avenue carries roughly 117 reports per 100 of them.
Cruger Avenue carries 536 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 274 violations on file. Pests accounts for 227 more, and doors for 151. City housing records put 2,458 homes in 199 residential buildings on Cruger Avenue, 58 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 25 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 67, with quietness at 13. Cruger Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. Parking ranks 48 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 30. Against every street in the city, Cruger Avenue ranks 86 on tree cover and 71 on food nearby. Cruger Avenue ranks 87 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
55% of the 2,458 homes recorded on Cruger Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,333 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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Cruger Avenue runs through Allerton, Pelham Parkway and Williamsbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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