Needham Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Needham Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Needham Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and tree cover (58). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Needham Avenue, with 39 reports. Across every category, 310 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 26 reports, and derelict vehicles with 20. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 263 homes on file, that is about 118 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 124 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 47 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Needham Avenue, 37 violations of it. Heat and hot water follows at 36 violations, then structure at 30. The housing file lists 102 residential buildings on Needham Avenue holding 263 homes, with 19 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.6 homes each.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Needham Avenue ranks 84 on infrastructure and 19 on traffic safety. That 19 on traffic safety puts Needham Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 52 on the same scale, with quietness at 30. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Needham Avenue ranks 58 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is where Needham Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 263 homes on file, 47 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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