Elder Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Elder Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Elder Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and food nearby (76). Street crime (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Elder Avenue, with 126 reports. Across every category, 1,458 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 9% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 98 reports, then illegal parking at 91. The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,216 homes on file, that is about 120 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 332 Class C violations on Elder Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 27 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Elder Avenue, 145 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 115 more, and doors for 101. The housing file lists 180 residential buildings on Elder Avenue holding 1,216 homes, with 123 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Elder Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 55 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 7. That 7 on infrastructure puts Elder Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 42 and housing at 8. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 75 and transit at 66. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Elder Avenue, at 76. Elder Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
The housing file puts 54% of the 1,216 homes on Elder Avenue in rent stabilization, 615 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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