Morris Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Morris Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Morris Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and tree cover (99). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Morris Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 1,793 of them. The whole 311 file on Morris Avenue holds 9,525 reports, and heat and hot water is 19% of it. Residential noise follows with 1,269 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 760. In all, 98 distinct 311 categories are represented on Morris Avenue. Set against the 8,822 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 2,011 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 23 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Morris Avenue is pests, at 1,219 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (1,055 violations) and doors (729). The housing file lists 346 residential buildings on Morris Avenue holding 8,822 homes, with 161 walk-ups and 70 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 25 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Morris Avenue have injured 236 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Morris Avenue ranks 72 on cleanliness and 17 on quietness. Morris Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 59 and traffic safety at 51 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Morris Avenue ranks 85 on transit and 78 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Morris Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Morris Avenue is parking, at 85.
About 60% of the 8,822 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 5,246 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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Morris Avenue runs through Concourse, Mount Eden and Mount Hope, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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