Powell Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Powell Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Powell Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (95) and tree cover (76). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Powell Avenue, with 238 reports. Across every category, 650 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name heat and hot water. Blocked driveway follows with 72 reports, and illegal parking with 51. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. About 106 reports per 100 homes sit on Powell Avenue, counting every category.
Powell Avenue carries 119 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Powell Avenue, 92 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 74 violations, then doors at 68. 195 residential buildings on Powell Avenue hold the 613 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Powell Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 66 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 12. A 12 on cleanliness places Powell Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Parking ranks 26 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 67 and transit at 61. Powell Avenue ranks 76 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Powell Avenue is quietness, at 95.
42% of the 613 homes recorded on Powell Avenue are rent-stabilized, 250 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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