Dekalb Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Dekalb Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Dekalb Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and food nearby (81). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Dekalb Avenue, with 530 reports. Across every category, 1,566 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 195 reports, and illegal parking with 89. In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on Dekalb Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 142 reports for every 100 homes on Dekalb Avenue.
The HPD file on Dekalb Avenue carries 327 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 Dekalb Avenue, 291 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (261 violations) and doors (157). The housing file lists 30 residential buildings on Dekalb Avenue holding 1,106 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 37 homes each.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Dekalb Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Dekalb Avenue ranks 72 on parking and 10 on cleanliness. That 10 on cleanliness puts Dekalb Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 57 and quietness at 10. The citywide frame puts transit at 80 and tree cover at 65. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 81. Dekalb Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Dekalb Avenue is traffic safety, at 94.
The housing file puts 71% of the 1,106 homes on Dekalb Avenue in rent stabilization, 787 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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