Puritan Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Puritan Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Puritan Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (68) and food nearby (57). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Puritan Avenue, with 21 reports. Across every category, 51 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. In all, 10 distinct 311 categories are represented on Puritan Avenue. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on Puritan Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Puritan Avenue. PLUTO counts 28 residential buildings and 66 homes on Puritan Avenue, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.4 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Puritan Avenue ranks 57 on housing and 14 on parking. Puritan Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 45 and traffic safety at 43. Against every street in the city, Puritan Avenue ranks 45 on transit and 31 on tree cover. Puritan Avenue ranks 57 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Puritan Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
About 29% of the 66 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 19 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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