Norton Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Norton Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 13, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Norton Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (68) and tree cover (29). Transit (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Derelict vehicles leads the 311 file on Norton Avenue, with 10 reports. Across every category, 33 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name derelict vehicles. Reports on Norton Avenue span 12 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 28 homes on file, that is about 118 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Norton Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 13 residential buildings on Norton Avenue hold the 28 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Norton Avenue ranks 25 on traffic safety and 6 on quietness. Norton Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 23 and parking at 15. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 3, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 29. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Norton Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Norton Avenue is cleanliness, at 49.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 28 on Norton Avenue.
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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Norton Avenue runs through Castle Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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