Dawson Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Dawson Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Dawson Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and transit (81). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Dawson Street, with 54 reports. Across every category, 339 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 54 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 40. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on Dawson Street. Divided by the homes on file, Dawson Street carries roughly 102 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 62 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Dawson Street, 31 violations of it. Structure follows at 24 violations, then doors at 21. 48 residential buildings on Dawson Street hold the 332 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.9 homes to a building.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Dawson Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Dawson Street ranks 40 on cleanliness and 11 on quietness. Dawson Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 29 and traffic safety at 22 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Dawson Street ranks 75 on food nearby and 66 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Dawson Street, at 81. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
The housing file puts 58% of the 332 homes on Dawson Street in rent stabilization, 193 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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