Howe Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Howe Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 18, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Howe Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (92) and tree cover (55). Transit (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Reports on Howe Avenue span 20 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Howe Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 85 residential buildings and 143 homes on Howe Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 87, with quietness at 49. Howe Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts housing at 79 and traffic safety at 55 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 4, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 55. 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 92.
None of the 143 homes on file 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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