Pierce Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Pierce Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Pierce Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (48) and tree cover (75). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Pierce Avenue, with 35 reports, and parking ranks 11 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 183 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 24 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 16. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pierce Avenue. Set against the 190 homes on file, that is about 96 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Pierce Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 103 residential buildings and 190 homes on Pierce Avenue, with 11 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on Pierce Avenue have injured 7 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Pierce Avenue ranks 30 on housing and 16 on infrastructure. Pierce Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 28 and cleanliness at 19. Food nearby ranks 45 and transit 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 75. Pierce Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Quietness is where Pierce Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 31.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 190 on Pierce 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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