Dewey Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Dewey Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.

Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Dewey Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (63). Street crime (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

More 311 reports on Dewey Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 54 of them. Residential noise accounts for 54% of the 100 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 38 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 12. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. About 22 reports per 100 homes sit on Dewey Avenue, counting every category.

The HPD file on Dewey Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 15 residential buildings on Dewey Avenue hold the 449 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 30 homes each.

Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 98, with quietness at 27. A 27 on quietness places Dewey Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 90 and traffic safety at 66 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Dewey Avenue ranks 57 on food nearby and 12 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 63. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.

None of the 449 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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