Gifford Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Gifford Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 18, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Gifford Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (83) and food nearby (23). Tree cover (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Gifford Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 24 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 33% of the 72 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed, with 15 reports. The file runs across 16 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 72 homes on file, that is about 100 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Gifford Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 37 residential buildings on Gifford Avenue hold the 72 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Gifford Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Gifford Avenue ranks 21 on housing and 11 on quietness. That 11 on quietness puts Gifford Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 19 and infrastructure at 12. The citywide frame puts transit at 20 and tree cover at 4. Gifford Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Gifford Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
Of the 72 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Gifford Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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