Edwards Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Edwards Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Edwards Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (54) and food nearby (67). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Edwards Avenue, with 58 reports, and parking ranks 9 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 130 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 38 reports, then blocked driveway at 16. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 138 homes on file, that is about 94 reports per 100 homes.
Edwards Avenue carries 10 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Structure is what HPD writes up most on Edwards Avenue, 12 violations of it. 73 residential buildings on Edwards Avenue hold the 138 homes on file, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 44 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 17. A 17 on housing places Edwards Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 31 and quietness at 22. Transit ranks 51 and tree cover 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Edwards Avenue ranks 67 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Edwards Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 54.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 138 on Edwards 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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