Harper Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Harper Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Harper Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and transit (64). Street crime (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Harper Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 62 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 58% of the 107 reports on file here. Derelict vehicles is the next most-filed at 36 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 31. In all, 33 distinct 311 categories are represented on Harper Avenue. Set against the 268 homes on file, that is about 40 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Harper Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 122 residential buildings on Harper Avenue hold the 268 homes on file, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.2 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 51, with cleanliness at 10. A 10 on cleanliness places Harper Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 48 and parking at 36. Tree cover ranks 50 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 64. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
Of the 268 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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