Powers Avenue, Bronx: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does Powers Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 90, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Powers Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (100) and transit (73). Tree cover (23) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Reports on Powers Avenue span 17 distinct 311 categories.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Powers Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 8 residential buildings and 391 homes on Powers Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 49 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 99, with housing at 84. An 84 on housing places Powers Avenue in the strongest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 98 on the same scale, with quietness at 90. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and tree cover at 23. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 73. Powers Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is where Powers Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 100.
About 15% of the 391 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 59 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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