Gerard Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Gerard Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Gerard Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (69) and tree cover (92). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Gerard Avenue, with 1,233 reports. Across every category, 4,558 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 1,094 reports, and residential noise with 410. In all, 84 distinct 311 categories are represented on Gerard Avenue. About 161 reports per 100 homes sit on Gerard Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 683 Class C violations on Gerard Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 24 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Gerard Avenue, 510 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 327 more, and doors for 286. City housing records put 2,830 homes in 53 residential buildings on Gerard Avenue, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 25 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Gerard Avenue holds about 53 homes.
Since 2021, 50 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Gerard Avenue ranks 56 on parking and 10 on housing. Gerard Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 46 and infrastructure at 29. Transit ranks 90 and food nearby 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Gerard Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Gerard Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 69.
Rent stabilization covers about 74% of the 2,830 homes on file, 2,098 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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Gerard Avenue runs through Concourse and Mount Eden, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).