Prentiss Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Prentiss Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 12, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Prentiss Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (70) and food nearby (18). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Prentiss Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 24 of them, and cleanliness ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Reports on Prentiss Avenue span 16 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Prentiss Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 21 residential buildings on Prentiss Avenue hold the 32 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Prentiss Avenue ranks 31 on quietness and 9 on parking. A 9 on parking places Prentiss Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 19 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 15. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 13 and transit at 8. Prentiss Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Prentiss Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Prentiss Avenue is housing, at 65.
None of the 32 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Prentiss Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).