Perry Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Perry Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Perry Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and transit (86). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Perry Avenue, with 333 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Perry Avenue holds 1,026 reports, and heat and hot water is 32% of it. Illegal parking follows with 261 reports, and residential noise with 232. In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on Perry Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Perry Avenue carries roughly 88 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 162 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 126 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (112 violations) and doors (75). 131 residential buildings on Perry Avenue hold the 1,163 homes on file, 39 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 17 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 8.9 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 48, with housing at 20. That 20 on housing puts Perry Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 32 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 24. Tree cover ranks 76 and food nearby 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Perry Avenue, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Perry Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
68% of the 1,163 homes recorded on Perry Avenue are rent-stabilized, 792 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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Perry Avenue runs through Norwood and Bedford Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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