Lawton Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Lawton Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Lawton Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (86) and tree cover (63). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Lawton Avenue, with 217 reports, and parking ranks 1 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Lawton Avenue holds 336 reports, and illegal parking is 65% of it. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 105 reports, then residential noise at 25. The file runs across 28 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 136 homes on file, that is about 247 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Lawton Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 79 residential buildings on Lawton Avenue hold the 136 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 43, with traffic safety at 12. Lawton Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 24 and infrastructure at 21. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 45 and transit at 14. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 63. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Lawton Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
None of the 136 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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Lawton Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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