Effingham Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Effingham Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 10, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Effingham Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (89) and food nearby (18). Transit (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle leads the 311 file on Effingham Avenue, with 17 reports. Across every category, 37 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name abandoned vehicle. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 10 reports. Reports on Effingham Avenue span 7 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 97 reports for every 100 homes on Effingham Avenue.
Effingham Avenue carries 4 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. PLUTO counts 30 residential buildings and 38 homes on Effingham Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 78 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 15. Effingham Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts cleanliness at 64 and parking at 23 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Effingham Avenue ranks 16 on tree cover and 3 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 18. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Effingham Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
Of the 38 homes on file, none 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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