Olmstead Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Olmstead Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Olmstead Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (69) and tree cover (85). Parking (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Olmstead Avenue, with 243 reports, and parking ranks 20 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,035 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 140 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 133. Reports on Olmstead Avenue span 74 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 62 reports for every 100 homes on Olmstead Avenue.
HPD has cited 57 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 57 violations on file. Pests follows at 48 violations, then paint and lead at 34. The housing file lists 219 residential buildings on Olmstead Avenue holding 1,682 homes, with 42 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 7.7 homes each.
Since 2021, 32 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 61, with infrastructure at 27. That 27 on infrastructure puts Olmstead Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 56 and cleanliness at 32 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Olmstead Avenue, at 85. Olmstead Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Olmstead Avenue is housing, at 69.
12% of the 1,682 homes recorded on Olmstead Avenue are rent-stabilized, 207 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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