Reservoir Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Reservoir Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Reservoir Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (75) and transit (76). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Reservoir Avenue, with 521 reports, and parking ranks 1 among smaller avenues. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 85 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 74. In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on Reservoir Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 169 reports for every 100 homes on Reservoir Avenue.
The HPD file on Reservoir Avenue carries 16 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on Reservoir Avenue, 12 violations of it. Pests follows at 11 violations, then plumbing at 10. City housing records put 255 homes in 12 residential buildings on Reservoir Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 21 homes to a building.
NYPD records 40 people injured in crashes on Reservoir Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 27, with traffic safety at 4. That 4 on traffic safety puts Reservoir Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 13 on the same scale, with housing at 11. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 67 and tree cover at 50. Reservoir Avenue ranks 76 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Reservoir Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Reservoir Avenue is infrastructure, at 75.
86% of the 255 homes recorded on Reservoir Avenue are rent-stabilized, 184 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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