Martha Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Martha Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Martha Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (53) and food nearby (67). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Martha Avenue, with 100 reports, and parking ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 164 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 61% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 11 reports. The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 189 homes on file, that is about 87 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Martha Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 51 residential buildings on Martha Avenue holding 189 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 48, with cleanliness at 16. Martha Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Housing ranks 39 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 24. Tree cover ranks 59 and transit 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 67. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 50.
The housing file puts 42% of the 189 homes on Martha Avenue in rent stabilization, 79 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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