Fort Independence Street, Bronx: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Fort Independence Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Fort Independence Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (74) and transit (67). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Set against the 639 homes on file, that is about 113 reports per 100 homes.
Fort Independence Street carries 61 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 52 residential buildings on Fort Independence Street holding 639 homes, with 9 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on Fort Independence Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 59, with housing at 23. That 23 on housing puts Fort Independence Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 38 on the same scale, with quietness at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 55 and tree cover at 42. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Fort Independence Street, at 67. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Fort Independence Street is cleanliness, at 74.
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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