Ellsworth Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Ellsworth Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.

Calm 54, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Ellsworth Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (94) and tree cover (43). Transit (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Ellsworth Avenue, with 26 reports. Across every category, 88 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (13 reports) and street light condition (13). The file runs across 25 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Ellsworth Avenue carries roughly 43 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Ellsworth Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 108 residential buildings on Ellsworth Avenue hold the 205 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Among smaller avenues, Ellsworth Avenue ranks 65 on traffic safety and 23 on infrastructure. Ellsworth Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Parking ranks 49 on the same scale, with quietness at 43. Against every street in the city, Ellsworth Avenue ranks 18 on transit and 18 on food nearby. Ellsworth Avenue ranks 43 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Cleanliness is where Ellsworth Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 94.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 205 on Ellsworth 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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