Maclay Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Maclay Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Maclay Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and food nearby (68). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Maclay Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 44 of them. The whole 311 file on Maclay Avenue holds 149 reports, and heat and hot water is 30% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 34 reports, then illegal parking at 23. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Maclay Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Maclay Avenue carries roughly 81 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Maclay Avenue carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Maclay Avenue, 14 violations of it. Pests follows at 13 violations, then bed bugs at 10. The housing file lists 57 residential buildings on Maclay Avenue holding 185 homes, with 21 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 54 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 16. A 16 on parking places Maclay Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 48 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 36. Against every street in the city, Maclay Avenue ranks 61 on transit and 53 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Maclay Avenue, at 68. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Maclay Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Maclay Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 92.
27% of the 185 homes recorded on Maclay Avenue are rent-stabilized, 48 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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