Ellis Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Ellis Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Ellis Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (89) and tree cover (82). Parking (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Ellis Avenue, with 116 reports, and parking ranks 10 among busy avenues. Across every category, 642 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 88 reports, then heat and hot water at 58. Reports on Ellis Avenue span 61 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 100 reports for every 100 homes on Ellis Avenue.
HPD has cited 55 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 115 violations on file. Doors accounts for 75 more, and paint and lead for 73. City housing records put 640 homes in 192 residential buildings on Ellis Avenue, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.3 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Ellis Avenue have injured 5 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 70, with housing at 20. A 20 on housing places Ellis Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 57 and infrastructure at 48 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 75 and transit 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Ellis Avenue ranks 82 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Ellis Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ellis Avenue is traffic safety, at 89.
31% of the 640 homes recorded on Ellis Avenue are rent-stabilized, 191 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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