Furman Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Furman Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Furman Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and transit (84). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Furman Avenue, with 324 reports. The whole 311 file on Furman Avenue holds 718 reports, and illegal parking is 45% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (89 reports) and plumbing (30). In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on Furman Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 159 reports for every 100 homes on Furman Avenue.
Furman Avenue carries 117 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 26 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Furman Avenue is pests, at 75 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 55 more, and doors for 35. City housing records put 451 homes in 74 residential buildings on Furman Avenue, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Furman Avenue holds about 6.1 homes.
NYPD records 16 people injured in crashes on Furman Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Furman Avenue ranks 43 on cleanliness and 6 on parking. A 6 on parking places Furman Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 26 and quietness at 24 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 71 and tree cover 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Furman Avenue ranks 84 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Furman Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 83.
61% of the 451 homes recorded on Furman Avenue are rent-stabilized, 248 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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