Popham Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Popham Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against busy avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Popham Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and transit (59). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Popham Avenue, with 141 reports. Across every category, 904 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 74 reports, and illegal parking with 66. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 610 homes on file, that is about 148 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 139 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 23 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 65 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 65 more, and doors for 63. City housing records put 610 homes in 80 residential buildings on Popham Avenue, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Popham Avenue holds about 7.6 homes.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Popham Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Popham Avenue ranks 35 on parking and 6 on infrastructure. That 6 on infrastructure puts Popham Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 14 and housing at 11. Against every street in the city, Popham Avenue ranks 59 on tree cover and 51 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 59. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Popham Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
49% of the 610 homes recorded on Popham Avenue are rent-stabilized, 283 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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