Paulding Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Paulding Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Paulding Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (80) and tree cover (94). Traffic safety (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Paulding Avenue. 77 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 33 among busy avenues. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Paulding Avenue, with 155 reports. Across every category, 869 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 153 reports, and blocked driveway with 129. Reports on Paulding Avenue span 66 distinct 311 categories. About 51 reports per 100 homes sit on Paulding Avenue, counting every category.
Paulding Avenue carries 59 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Paulding Avenue is pests, at 118 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 73 more, and paint and lead for 50. 625 residential buildings on Paulding Avenue hold the 1,707 homes on file, 121 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Paulding Avenue holds about 2.7 homes.
Among busy avenues, Paulding Avenue ranks 62 on quietness and 43 on parking. Paulding Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on parking. The card also puts housing at 49 and infrastructure at 43 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 49, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Paulding Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Paulding Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 80.
6% of the 1,707 homes recorded on Paulding Avenue are rent-stabilized, 95 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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