Johnson Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Johnson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 86, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Johnson Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and tree cover (75). Food nearby (51) 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 Johnson Avenue, with 139 reports. The whole 311 file on Johnson Avenue holds 364 reports, and illegal parking is 38% of it. Maintenance or facility follows with 30 reports, and water system with 25. Reports on Johnson Avenue span 61 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,357 homes on file, that is about 27 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Johnson Avenue carries 16 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 56 residential buildings on Johnson Avenue hold the 1,357 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 24 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Johnson Avenue ranks 88 on housing and 76 on quietness. That 76 on quietness puts Johnson Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 85 on the same scale, with parking at 78. Transit ranks 59 and food nearby 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Johnson Avenue, at 75. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Johnson Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 99.
About 7% of the 1,357 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 91 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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Johnson Avenue runs through Riverdale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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