Metropolitan Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 23 out of 100. How does Metropolitan Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 23 out of 100.
Calm 2, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Metropolitan Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (11) and tree cover (84). The lowest of the ten is quietness (0).
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Metropolitan Avenue, with 495 reports. Across every category, 1,436 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (441 reports) and elevator (67). In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on Metropolitan Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 2,354 reports for every 100 homes on Metropolitan Avenue.
HPD has cited 283 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 225 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 108 violations, then pests at 74.
Reported crashes on Metropolitan Avenue have injured 26 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 4, with housing at 0. Metropolitan Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 3 and cleanliness at 2 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 63 and transit 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Metropolitan Avenue ranks 84 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Metropolitan Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 11.
None of the 61 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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Metropolitan Avenue runs through Parkchester, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).