Melrose Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Melrose Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against busy avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Melrose Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and food nearby (85). Street crime (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Melrose Avenue name unsanitary condition than any other category, 88 of them. Across every category, 913 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name unsanitary condition. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 67 reports, then illegal parking at 50. Reports on Melrose Avenue span 64 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 465 homes on file, that is about 196 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 162 Class C violations on Melrose Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 35 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Melrose Avenue is pests, at 108 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 99 more, and doors for 78. The housing file lists 28 residential buildings on Melrose Avenue holding 465 homes, with 18 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
Reported crashes on Melrose Avenue have injured 110 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Melrose Avenue ranks 57 on parking and 2 on traffic safety. A 2 on traffic safety places Melrose Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 9 on the same scale, with housing at 4. The citywide frame puts transit at 70 and tree cover at 66. Melrose Avenue ranks 85 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 72% of the 465 homes on file, 335 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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