Gillespie Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Gillespie Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Gillespie Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (60) and food nearby (57). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Gillespie Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 83 of them, and parking ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 57% of the 146 reports on file here. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 21 reports. In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on Gillespie Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Gillespie Avenue carries roughly 89 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Gillespie Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 83 residential buildings on Gillespie Avenue holding 164 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 58, with cleanliness at 36. Gillespie Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Housing ranks 46 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 38. Against every street in the city, Gillespie Avenue ranks 55 on transit and 36 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 57. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Gillespie Avenue is traffic safety, at 60.
The housing file puts 11% of the 164 homes on Gillespie Avenue in rent stabilization, 18 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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