Oxford Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Oxford Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Oxford Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (82) and food nearby (82). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Oxford Avenue, with 66 reports. Across every category, 180 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name heat and hot water. Elevator is the next most-filed at 50 reports, then blocked driveway at 23. Reports on Oxford Avenue span 36 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Oxford Avenue carries roughly 55 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Oxford Avenue carries 27 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Oxford Avenue, 10 violations of it. Behind it the file holds structure, at 10 violations. 25 residential buildings on Oxford Avenue hold the 328 homes on file, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Oxford Avenue holds about 13 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 59 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 21. A 21 on cleanliness places Oxford Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 53 on the same scale, with quietness at 39. The citywide frame puts transit at 57 and tree cover at 50. Oxford Avenue ranks 82 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Oxford Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 82.
49% of the 328 homes recorded on Oxford Avenue are rent-stabilized, 161 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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