Franklin Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Franklin Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against busy avenues. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Franklin Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and tree cover (74). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Franklin Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 183 of them. The whole 311 file on Franklin Avenue holds 1,675 reports, and heat and hot water is 11% of it. Unsanitary condition follows with 122 reports, and illegal parking with 76. In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Franklin Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Franklin Avenue carries roughly 138 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Franklin Avenue carries 469 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 39 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Franklin Avenue is pests, at 305 violations. Doors accounts for 190 more, and paint and lead for 134. PLUTO counts 69 residential buildings and 1,212 homes on Franklin Avenue, with 35 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 81 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 7. A 7 on cleanliness places Franklin Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 44 on the same scale, with quietness at 36. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 74. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Franklin Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Franklin Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
46% of the 1,212 homes recorded on Franklin Avenue are rent-stabilized, 559 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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