Merriam Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Merriam Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Merriam Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and food nearby (65). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Merriam Avenue, with 119 reports. The whole 311 file on Merriam Avenue holds 853 reports, and heat and hot water is 14% of it. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 85 reports, then plumbing at 61. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 717 homes on file, that is about 119 reports per 100 homes.
Merriam Avenue carries 189 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 26 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 146 violations on file. Pests follows at 133 violations, then structure at 102. 14 residential buildings on Merriam Avenue hold the 717 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Merriam Avenue holds about 51 homes.
Reported crashes on Merriam Avenue have injured 7 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Merriam Avenue ranks 85 on traffic safety and 11 on cleanliness. Merriam Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 37 on the same scale, with quietness at 36. Against every street in the city, Merriam Avenue ranks 58 on transit and 54 on tree cover. Merriam Avenue ranks 65 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Merriam Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Merriam Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 95.
About 68% of the 717 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 484 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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