Emerson Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Emerson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 11, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Emerson Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (66) and tree cover (24). Transit (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Emerson Avenue span 12 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 103 reports for every 100 homes on Emerson Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Emerson Avenue. City housing records put 35 homes in 21 residential buildings on Emerson Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Emerson Avenue ranks 52 on cleanliness and 3 on quietness. Emerson Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts housing at 43 and infrastructure at 22 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Emerson Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 2 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 24. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Emerson Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Emerson Avenue is traffic safety, at 66.
Of the 35 homes on file, none 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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Emerson Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).