Otis Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Otis Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Otis Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (62) and food nearby (74). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle is the most-filed complaint on Otis Avenue, with 12 reports. Across every category, 35 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name abandoned vehicle. The file runs across 25 distinct 311 categories in all. About 65 reports per 100 homes sit on Otis Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Otis Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 29 residential buildings on Otis Avenue holding 54 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Otis Avenue ranks 51 on housing and 24 on traffic safety. A 24 on traffic safety places Otis Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 47 and parking at 29. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 46 and transit at 35. Otis Avenue ranks 74 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
Of the 54 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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