Leggett Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Leggett Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Leggett Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (83) and transit (67). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Leggett Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 87 of them. The whole 311 file on Leggett Avenue holds 557 reports, and heat and hot water is 16% of it. Vehicle noise follows with 74 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 62. The file runs across 38 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 357 homes on file, that is about 156 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 127 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 36 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Leggett Avenue, 44 violations of it. Heat and hot water accounts for 39 more, and paint and lead for 38. City housing records put 357 homes in 15 residential buildings on Leggett Avenue, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 24 homes each.
NYPD records 49 people injured in crashes on Leggett Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Leggett Avenue ranks 57 on infrastructure and 6 on traffic safety. Leggett Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 24 and quietness at 7. Tree cover ranks 64 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Leggett Avenue, at 67. Leggett Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
59% of the 357 homes recorded on Leggett Avenue are rent-stabilized, 211 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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