Patterson Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Patterson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 19, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Patterson Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (48). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Patterson Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 195 of them, and parking ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 222 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 88% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 56 reports, and water system with 33. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on Patterson Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 179 reports for every 100 homes on Patterson Avenue.
The HPD file on Patterson Avenue carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 64 residential buildings on Patterson Avenue hold the 124 homes on file, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Patterson Avenue have injured 9 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Patterson Avenue ranks 35 on housing and 7 on quietness. That 7 on quietness puts Patterson Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 15 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 15. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 4. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 48. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Patterson Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 124 on Patterson Avenue.
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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Patterson Avenue runs through Soundview & Clason Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).