Palmer Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Palmer Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Palmer Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (67) and tree cover (70). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Palmer Avenue, with 43 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Palmer Avenue holds 279 reports, and residential noise is 15% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 29 reports, and unsanitary condition with 24. Reports on Palmer Avenue span 45 distinct 311 categories. About 87 reports per 100 homes sit on Palmer Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Palmer Avenue carries 26 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Palmer Avenue is pests, at 28 violations. Bed bugs follows at 22 violations, then sanitation at 10. The housing file lists 89 residential buildings on Palmer Avenue holding 322 homes, with 35 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.6 homes each.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Palmer Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 55, with housing at 9. Palmer Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. The card also puts traffic safety at 44 and quietness at 13 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Palmer Avenue ranks 68 on transit and 39 on food nearby. Palmer Avenue ranks 70 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Palmer Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 67.
21% of the 322 homes recorded on Palmer Avenue are rent-stabilized, 67 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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