Longfellow Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Longfellow Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Longfellow Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (76) and tree cover (89). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Longfellow Avenue, with 332 reports. The whole 311 file on Longfellow Avenue holds 1,623 reports, and heat and hot water is 20% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 174 reports, then unsanitary condition at 118. Reports on Longfellow Avenue span 76 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,443 homes on file, that is about 112 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 311 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Longfellow Avenue, 155 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 103 violations, then doors at 94. PLUTO counts 188 residential buildings and 1,443 homes on Longfellow Avenue, with 86 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.7 homes each.
Reported crashes on Longfellow Avenue have injured 20 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Longfellow Avenue ranks 64 on parking and 14 on quietness. Longfellow Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 43 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 41. The citywide frame puts transit at 64 and food nearby at 53. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Longfellow Avenue, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 24% of the 1,443 homes on file, 331 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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