Leland Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Leland Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Leland Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and tree cover (92). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Leland Avenue, with 279 reports. Across every category, 1,299 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 208 reports, then blocked driveway at 128. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,167 homes on file, that is about 111 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Leland Avenue carries 216 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Leland Avenue, 252 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 133 violations, then doors at 107. 348 residential buildings on Leland Avenue hold the 1,167 homes on file, 138 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Leland Avenue have injured 9 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 61, with infrastructure at 15. Leland Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 51 and parking at 27 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Leland Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
About 27% of the 1,167 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 310 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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