Plimpton Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Plimpton Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Plimpton Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (76) and food nearby (68). Housing (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Plimpton Avenue, with 67 reports. The whole 311 file on Plimpton Avenue holds 391 reports, and heat and hot water is 17% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 29 reports, and illegal parking with 27. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 380 homes on file, that is about 103 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 115 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 30 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Plimpton Avenue, 64 violations of it. Structure follows at 55 violations, then pests at 47. 58 residential buildings on Plimpton Avenue hold the 380 homes on file, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.6 homes each.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Plimpton Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Plimpton Avenue ranks 50 on parking and 31 on cleanliness. That 31 on cleanliness puts Plimpton Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 34 and traffic safety at 34. The citywide frame puts transit at 64 and tree cover at 56. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 68. Plimpton Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Plimpton Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 76.
The housing file puts 26% of the 380 homes on Plimpton Avenue in rent stabilization, 98 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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