Macombs Road, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Macombs Road in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Macombs Road in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (80) and transit (87). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Macombs Road, with 278 reports. The whole 311 file on Macombs Road holds 1,346 reports, and heat and hot water is 21% of it. Residential noise follows with 124 reports, and illegal parking with 96. The file runs across 59 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 935 homes on file, that is about 144 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 321 Class C violations on Macombs Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 34 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Macombs Road is pests, at 296 violations. Doors follows at 196 violations, then paint and lead at 187. The housing file lists 20 residential buildings on Macombs Road holding 935 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 47 homes to a building.
NYPD records 54 people injured in crashes on Macombs Road since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 65, with traffic safety at 10. Macombs Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 25 and quietness at 19 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 78 and tree cover 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Macombs Road is cleanliness, at 80.
About 77% of the 935 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 722 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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