Elton Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Elton Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Elton Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and food nearby (78). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Elton Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 99 of them. The whole 311 file on Elton Avenue holds 352 reports, and heat and hot water is 28% of it. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (40 reports) and residential noise (38). The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. About 107 reports per 100 homes sit on Elton Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Elton Avenue carries 49 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Elton Avenue is pests, at 71 violations. Behind it the file holds structure (50 violations) and bed bugs (39). 61 residential buildings on Elton Avenue hold the 330 homes on file, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Elton Avenue ranks 76 on parking and 3 on housing. Elton Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 19 and cleanliness at 14. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 59 and transit at 58. Elton Avenue ranks 78 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Elton Avenue is infrastructure, at 80.
49% of the 330 homes recorded on Elton Avenue are rent-stabilized, 163 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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