Mapes Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Mapes Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Mapes Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and food nearby (73). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Mapes Avenue, with 189 reports. Across every category, 1,013 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 85 reports, then unsanitary condition at 50. Reports on Mapes Avenue span 47 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 607 homes on file, that is about 167 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Mapes Avenue carries 231 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 38 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Mapes Avenue is pests, at 140 violations. Paint and lead follows at 87 violations, then doors at 76. 56 residential buildings on Mapes Avenue hold the 607 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Mapes Avenue holds about 11 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 90 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 6. That 6 on quietness puts Mapes Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 86 and cleanliness at 20. Tree cover ranks 56 and transit 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Mapes Avenue, at 73. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Mapes Avenue is traffic safety, at 96.
About 27% of the 607 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 163 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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