Ellison Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Ellison Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Ellison Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (90) and food nearby (63). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Ellison Avenue, with 40 reports. Across every category, 108 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 33 reports, then heat and hot water at 14. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Ellison Avenue carries roughly 126 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 18 Class C violations on Ellison Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 19 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 10 violations. The housing file lists 38 residential buildings on Ellison Avenue holding 86 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Ellison Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Ellison Avenue ranks 69 on infrastructure and 12 on parking. A 12 on parking places Ellison Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 22 and quietness at 13 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 48 and tree cover 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Ellison Avenue, at 63. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ellison Avenue is traffic safety, at 87.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 86 on Ellison 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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