Metcalf Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Metcalf Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Metcalf Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (76) and tree cover (73). Street crime (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Metcalf Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 52 of them. The whole 311 file on Metcalf Avenue holds 400 reports, and residential noise is 13% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (50 reports) and heat and hot water (31). The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 711 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
Metcalf Avenue carries 39 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 32 violations on file. Plumbing follows at 18 violations, then paint and lead at 18. City housing records put 711 homes in 68 residential buildings on Metcalf Avenue, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 10 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Metcalf Avenue have injured 34 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Metcalf Avenue ranks 59 on infrastructure and 23 on traffic safety. That 23 on traffic safety puts Metcalf Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 55 and cleanliness at 26 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Metcalf Avenue, at 73. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Metcalf Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where Metcalf Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 76.
The housing file puts 35% of the 711 homes on Metcalf Avenue in rent stabilization, 249 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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