Nelson Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Nelson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against busy avenues. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Nelson Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (70) and tree cover (87). Housing (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Nelson Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 394 of them. Across every category, 2,655 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to illegal parking (267 reports) and blocked driveway (243). The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. About 124 reports per 100 homes sit on Nelson Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 550 Class C violations on Nelson Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 26 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 299 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 260 violations, then doors at 244. The housing file lists 163 residential buildings on Nelson Avenue holding 2,148 homes, with 84 walk-ups and 20 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Reported crashes on Nelson Avenue have injured 36 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 34 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 15. A 15 on cleanliness places Nelson Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 31 and quietness at 18. Transit ranks 69 and food nearby 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Nelson Avenue, at 87. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Nelson Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
About 58% of the 2,148 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,196 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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Nelson Avenue runs through Highbridge, University Heights & Morris Heights and Mount Eden, 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).