Penfield Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Penfield Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Penfield Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and transit (77). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Penfield Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 18 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 21% of the 87 reports on file here. Elevator is the next most-filed at 17 reports, then plumbing at 14. Reports on Penfield Street span 27 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 57 reports for every 100 homes on Penfield Street.
The HPD file on Penfield Street carries 15 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Penfield Street, 42 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (15 violations) and plumbing (14). PLUTO counts 40 residential buildings and 153 homes on Penfield Street, with 10 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.8 homes each.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 85, with traffic safety at 27. A 27 on traffic safety places Penfield Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 82 and parking at 67 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 63 and tree cover 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. Penfield Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
41% of the 153 homes recorded on Penfield Street are rent-stabilized, 62 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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