Palisade Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Palisade Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 86, ranked against busy avenues. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Palisade Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (100) and tree cover (41). Infrastructure (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Palisade Avenue, with 45 reports. Across every category, 171 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Street condition is the next most-filed at 28 reports, then derelict vehicles at 20. Reports on Palisade Avenue span 45 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 891 homes on file, that is about 19 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Palisade Avenue, 10 violations of it. City housing records put 891 homes in 54 residential buildings on Palisade Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 17 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Palisade Avenue ranks 97 on parking and 87 on housing. That 87 on housing puts Palisade Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 95 on the same scale, with quietness at 92. Against every street in the city, Palisade Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 15 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 41. Palisade Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Palisade Avenue is traffic safety, at 100.
8% of the 891 homes recorded on Palisade Avenue are rent-stabilized, 75 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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