Ely Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does Ely Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Ely Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (68) and tree cover (88). Infrastructure (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Ely Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 145 of them. The whole 311 file on Ely Avenue holds 517 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (87 reports) and residential noise (72). In all, 54 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ely Avenue. Set against the 758 homes on file, that is about 68 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 16 Class C violations on Ely Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Ely Avenue is pests, at 60 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 50 more, and plumbing for 18. City housing records put 758 homes in 408 residential buildings on Ely Avenue, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Ely Avenue have injured 25 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 64, with parking at 18. Ely Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. Housing ranks 43 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 42. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and transit at 52. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Ely Avenue, at 88. Ely Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Ely Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 68.
None of the 758 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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