Research Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Research Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Research Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (85) and tree cover (44). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Research Avenue, with 28 reports, and parking ranks 13 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 64 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 13 reports. Reports on Research Avenue span 26 distinct 311 categories. About 77 reports per 100 homes sit on Research Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Research Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 49 residential buildings and 83 homes on Research Avenue, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Research Avenue ranks 74 on cleanliness and 16 on infrastructure. That 16 on infrastructure puts Research Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 71 on the same scale, with housing at 24. Against every street in the city, Research Avenue ranks 31 on transit and 31 on food nearby. Research Avenue ranks 44 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Research Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 83 on Research Avenue.
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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