Monroe Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Monroe Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Monroe Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (74) and transit (88). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Monroe Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 960 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Residential noise accounts for 36% of the 2,660 reports on file here. Heat and hot water follows with 219 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 144. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. About 333 reports per 100 homes sit on Monroe Avenue, counting every category.
Monroe Avenue carries 298 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 37 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 200 violations on file. Doors accounts for 123 more, and paint and lead for 111. City housing records put 798 homes in 55 residential buildings on Monroe Avenue, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Monroe Avenue holds about 15 homes.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 71 among busy avenues and housing ranks 2. A 2 on housing places Monroe Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 71 and infrastructure at 23 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Monroe Avenue ranks 63 on food nearby and 58 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Monroe Avenue, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
53% of the 798 homes recorded on Monroe Avenue are rent-stabilized, 416 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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Monroe Avenue runs through Mount Hope and Mount Eden, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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