Dean Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Dean Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 19, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Dean Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (27). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Dean Avenue, with 25 reports. Across every category, 92 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 17 reports. In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on Dean Avenue. About 71 reports per 100 homes sit on Dean Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Dean Avenue. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Dean Avenue, 14 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 10 violations. City housing records put 130 homes in 63 residential buildings on Dean Avenue, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Dean Avenue holds about 2.1 homes.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Dean Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 86 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 21. That 21 on housing puts Dean Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 68 and quietness at 24. Tree cover ranks 23 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Dean Avenue ranks 27 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
None of the 130 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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