Heath Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Heath Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Heath Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (80) and tree cover (64). Quietness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Heath Avenue, with 252 reports. Across every category, 1,549 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (211 reports) and residential noise (152). Reports on Heath Avenue span 62 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 114 reports for every 100 homes on Heath Avenue.
HPD has cited 189 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Heath Avenue is pests, at 173 violations. Paint and lead follows at 158 violations, then doors at 112. City housing records put 1,360 homes in 150 residential buildings on Heath Avenue, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Heath Avenue holds about 9.1 homes.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 61 among busy avenues and housing ranks 18. Heath Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Infrastructure ranks 35 on the same scale, with parking at 21. The citywide frame puts transit at 58 and food nearby at 51. Heath Avenue ranks 64 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Heath Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Heath Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 80.
53% of the 1,360 homes recorded on Heath Avenue are rent-stabilized, 699 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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