Lafontaine Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Lafontaine Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lafontaine Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and food nearby (73). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Lafontaine Avenue, with 44 reports. The whole 311 file on Lafontaine Avenue holds 487 reports, and residential noise is 9% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 31 reports, then illegal dumping at 14. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lafontaine Avenue. Set against the 309 homes on file, that is about 158 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 111 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 36 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Lafontaine Avenue is doors, at 16 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 11 more, and pests for 10. The housing file lists 15 residential buildings on Lafontaine Avenue holding 309 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Lafontaine Avenue ranks 91 on infrastructure and 11 on quietness. An 11 on quietness places Lafontaine Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 72 and parking at 66. Tree cover ranks 51 and transit 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 73. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Lafontaine Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 97.
71% of the 309 homes recorded on Lafontaine Avenue are rent-stabilized, 219 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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Lafontaine Avenue runs through Tremont, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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