Matthews Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Matthews Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Matthews Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and tree cover (84). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Matthews Avenue, with 952 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,790 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 53% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 201 reports, and blocked driveway with 170. In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on Matthews Avenue. Set against the 1,262 homes on file, that is about 142 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 134 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 87 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (51 violations) and bed bugs (40). The housing file lists 318 residential buildings on Matthews Avenue holding 1,262 homes, with 78 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4 homes each.
Reported crashes on Matthews Avenue have injured 9 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Matthews Avenue ranks 42 on cleanliness and 26 on housing. Matthews Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on housing. Infrastructure ranks 26 on the same scale, with parking at 26. Against every street in the city, Matthews Avenue ranks 67 on transit and 67 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. Matthews Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Matthews Avenue is traffic safety, at 91.
The housing file puts 31% of the 1,262 homes on Matthews Avenue in rent stabilization, 392 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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