Fairfax Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Fairfax Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Fairfax Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and tree cover (46). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Fairfax Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 59 of them, and parking ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 78% of the 76 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal dumping (11 reports) and derelict vehicles (11). The file runs across 14 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Fairfax Avenue carries roughly 129 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Fairfax Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 59 homes in 41 residential buildings on Fairfax Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Fairfax Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 78, with infrastructure at 29. A 29 on infrastructure places Fairfax Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 65 on the same scale, with housing at 43. The citywide frame puts transit at 34 and food nearby at 12. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Fairfax Avenue, at 46. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Fairfax Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 94.
None of the 59 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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