Purdy Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Purdy Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Purdy Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (70) and food nearby (82). Housing (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Purdy Street name illegal parking than any other category, 152 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 37% of the 407 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (61 reports) and residential noise (43). Reports on Purdy Street span 41 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 554 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Purdy Street carries 42 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Purdy Street, 21 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (18 violations) and bed bugs (17). City housing records put 554 homes in 66 residential buildings on Purdy Street, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 8.4 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 58, with parking at 28. That 28 on parking puts Purdy Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 38 and quietness at 36 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 62 and tree cover 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. Purdy Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Purdy Street is traffic safety, at 70.
48% of the 554 homes recorded on Purdy Street are rent-stabilized, 268 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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