Newbold Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Newbold Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.

Calm 52, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts Newbold Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (88) and food nearby (82). Street crime (17) is the weak spot.

On the record

Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Newbold Avenue, with 75 reports. The whole 311 file on Newbold Avenue holds 401 reports, and heat and hot water is 19% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 75 reports, then blocked driveway at 40. Reports on Newbold Avenue span 60 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 60 reports for every 100 homes on Newbold Avenue.

Newbold Avenue carries 47 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Newbold Avenue is doors, at 56 violations. Pests accounts for 39 more, and bed bugs for 26. PLUTO counts 144 residential buildings and 673 homes on Newbold Avenue, with 45 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.7 homes each.

NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Newbold Avenue since 2021.

Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 72, with housing at 30. A 30 on housing places Newbold Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 66 and quietness at 48. Against every street in the city, Newbold Avenue ranks 78 on tree cover and 77 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Newbold Avenue, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.

About 32% of the 673 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 212 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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