Edson Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Edson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Edson Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (50) and tree cover (82). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Edson Avenue, with 117 reports. The whole 311 file on Edson Avenue holds 498 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 80 reports, then blocked driveway at 80. Reports on Edson Avenue span 52 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Edson Avenue carries roughly 86 reports per 100 of them.
Edson Avenue carries 16 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Edson Avenue is pests, at 53 violations. Heat and hot water follows at 26 violations, then bed bugs at 15. The housing file lists 349 residential buildings on Edson Avenue holding 579 homes, with 27 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 22 people injured in crashes on Edson Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Edson Avenue ranks 41 on traffic safety and 19 on parking. That 19 on parking puts Edson Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 32 on the same scale, with quietness at 22. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. Edson Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Housing is where Edson Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 50.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 579 on Edson Avenue.
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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