Cypress Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Cypress Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against busy avenues. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cypress Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and transit (79). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Cypress Avenue, with 98 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among busy avenues. Across every category, 555 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 82 reports, and illegal parking with 40. Reports on Cypress Avenue span 54 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 94 reports for every 100 homes on Cypress Avenue.
The HPD file on Cypress Avenue carries 94 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cypress Avenue is paint and lead, at 58 violations. Pests accounts for 48 more, and doors for 40. PLUTO counts 28 residential buildings and 593 homes on Cypress Avenue, with 5 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on Cypress Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Cypress Avenue ranks 58 on infrastructure and 10 on quietness. That 10 on quietness puts Cypress Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 48 and housing at 28 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Cypress Avenue ranks 73 on food nearby and 51 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
The housing file puts 68% of the 593 homes on Cypress Avenue in rent stabilization, 405 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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Cypress Avenue runs through Mott Haven, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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