Prospect Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Prospect Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against busy avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Prospect Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (69) and tree cover (95). Street crime (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Prospect Avenue, with 953 reports. The whole 311 file on Prospect Avenue holds 3,855 reports, and heat and hot water is 25% of it. Residential noise follows with 562 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 324. In all, 94 distinct 311 categories are represented on Prospect Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 124 reports for every 100 homes on Prospect Avenue.
Prospect Avenue carries 777 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 25 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Prospect Avenue is pests, at 474 violations. Doors follows at 422 violations, then paint and lead at 395. 294 residential buildings on Prospect Avenue hold the 3,104 homes on file, 149 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Prospect Avenue holds about 11 homes.
Since 2021, 101 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 57, with housing at 10. A 10 on housing places Prospect Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 47 on the same scale, with quietness at 17. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Prospect Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Prospect Avenue is parking, at 69.
About 58% of the 3,104 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,780 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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Prospect Avenue runs through Tremont, Melrose and Longwood, 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).