Melville Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Melville Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Melville Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and transit (87). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Melville Street name street condition than any other category, 15 of them. The whole 311 file on Melville Street holds 168 reports, and street condition is 9% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Melville Street. Divided by the homes on file, Melville Street carries roughly 104 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 21 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 14 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 13 violations. The housing file lists 63 residential buildings on Melville Street holding 162 homes, with 26 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 63 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 22. That 22 on cleanliness puts Melville Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 43 and parking at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and tree cover at 35. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Melville Street, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
None of the 162 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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