Longwood Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Longwood Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Longwood Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (71) and transit (82). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Longwood Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Longwood Avenue have injured 106 people, and traffic safety ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 142 of them. The whole 311 file on Longwood Avenue holds 357 reports, and heat and hot water is 40% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 78 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 45. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 316 homes on file, that is about 113 reports per 100 homes.
Longwood Avenue carries 68 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Longwood Avenue, 75 violations of it. Doors accounts for 58 more, and paint and lead for 49. 52 residential buildings on Longwood Avenue hold the 316 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.1 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 66, with housing at 5. That 5 on housing puts Longwood Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 32 and quietness at 24 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Longwood Avenue ranks 70 on tree cover and 62 on food nearby. Longwood Avenue ranks 82 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Longwood Avenue is infrastructure, at 71.
Rent stabilization covers about 45% of the 316 homes on file, 142 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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