Elsmere Place, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Elsmere Place in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Elsmere Place in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and food nearby (67). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Elsmere Place, with 48 reports. Across every category, 456 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 43 reports, then residential noise at 40. The file runs across 46 distinct 311 categories in all. About 102 reports per 100 homes sit on Elsmere Place, counting every category.
Elsmere Place carries 73 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 45 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 43 violations, then doors at 35. City housing records put 446 homes in 64 residential buildings on Elsmere Place, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 7 homes each.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Elsmere Place since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 50 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 21. Elsmere Place sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against built-up residential streets, parking sits at 40 and traffic safety at 30. The citywide frame puts transit at 62 and tree cover at 31. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Elsmere Place, at 67. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Elsmere Place is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Elsmere Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 87.
Rent stabilization covers about 35% of the 446 homes on file, 155 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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