Garden Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Garden Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.

Calm 29, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.

That puts Garden Street in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (80) and food nearby (62). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

Unsanitary condition leads the 311 file on Garden Street, with 64 reports. The whole 311 file on Garden Street holds 789 reports, and unsanitary condition is 8% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (50 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (44). Reports on Garden Street span 35 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 523 homes on file, that is about 151 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited 156 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 30 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Garden Street, 69 violations of it. Pests follows at 63 violations, then doors at 57. PLUTO counts 28 residential buildings and 523 homes on Garden Street, with 21 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 19 homes to a building.

NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Garden Street since 2021.

Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 71, with housing at 3. Garden Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 37 and cleanliness at 16. Against every street in the city, Garden Street ranks 40 on tree cover and 31 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 62. Garden Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.

Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.

48% of the 523 homes recorded on Garden Street are rent-stabilized, 252 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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