Richardson Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Richardson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Richardson Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (51) and transit (82). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Richardson Avenue, with 93 reports. Across every category, 332 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 55 reports, then blocked driveway at 47. Reports on Richardson Avenue span 47 distinct 311 categories. About 89 reports per 100 homes sit on Richardson Avenue, counting every category.
Richardson Avenue carries 35 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Richardson Avenue is pests, at 33 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 20 more, and paint and lead for 15. PLUTO counts 145 residential buildings and 372 homes on Richardson Avenue, with 43 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Richardson Avenue holds about 2.6 homes.
Reported crashes on Richardson Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 24 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 11. An 11 on housing places Richardson Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 22 and cleanliness at 14. Against every street in the city, Richardson Avenue ranks 65 on food nearby and 63 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Richardson Avenue, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Richardson Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 51.
About 9% of the 372 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 33 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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