Forest Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Forest Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Forest Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (44) and transit (65). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Forest Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 47 of them. Across every category, 255 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 40 reports, then rodent at 35. In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on Forest Avenue. Set against the 261 homes on file, that is about 98 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 30 Class C violations on Forest Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 53 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 28 more, and bed bugs for 26. PLUTO counts 104 residential buildings and 261 homes on Forest Avenue, with 37 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Forest Avenue ranks 36 on infrastructure and 17 on cleanliness. Forest Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts quietness at 30 and parking at 21 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Forest Avenue ranks 63 on tree cover and 59 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Forest Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Forest Avenue is traffic safety, at 44.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 261 homes on file, 39 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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