Pugsley Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does Pugsley Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Pugsley Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (31) and tree cover (87). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Pugsley Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 113 of them. Across every category, 460 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 76 reports, then blocked driveway at 32. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pugsley Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 105 reports for every 100 homes on Pugsley Avenue.
The HPD file on Pugsley Avenue carries 24 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Pugsley Avenue is pests, at 27 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 19 more, and doors for 14. City housing records put 440 homes in 133 residential buildings on Pugsley Avenue, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Pugsley Avenue holds about 3.3 homes.
Since 2021, 31 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 24 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 13. Pugsley Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 22 and housing at 16. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Pugsley Avenue, at 87. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Pugsley Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Pugsley Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 31.
The housing file puts 6% of the 440 homes on Pugsley Avenue in rent stabilization, 28 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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Pugsley Avenue runs through Castle Hill, Soundview & Clason Point and Parkchester, 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).