Monterey Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Monterey Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.

Calm 39, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Monterey Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (94) and food nearby (69). Housing (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Monterey Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 55 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 13% of the 424 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 30 reports, and water leak with 26. In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on Monterey Avenue. About 160 reports per 100 homes sit on Monterey Avenue, counting every category.

The HPD file on Monterey Avenue carries 121 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 46 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Monterey Avenue, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (49 violations) and paint and lead (47). PLUTO counts 10 residential buildings and 265 homes on Monterey Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 27 homes to a building.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 68 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 28. That 28 on quietness puts Monterey Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 51 and cleanliness at 40 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 45 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 69. Monterey Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.

Rent stabilization covers about 36% of the 265 homes on file, 95 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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