Independence Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Independence Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against busy avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Independence Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (92) and tree cover (74). Infrastructure (19) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Independence Avenue, with 83 reports. Across every category, 305 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 35 reports, and water system with 26. The file runs across 58 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 884 homes on file, that is about 35 reports per 100 homes.
Independence Avenue carries 12 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 72 residential buildings on Independence Avenue hold the 884 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Reported crashes on Independence Avenue have injured 7 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 90, with quietness at 51. A 51 on quietness places Independence Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 71 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 62. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 34. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Independence Avenue, at 74. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Independence Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Independence Avenue is housing, at 92.
The housing file puts 12% of the 884 homes on Independence Avenue in rent stabilization, 110 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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Independence Avenue runs through Riverdale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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