River Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does River Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 12, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts River Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (53) and transit (88). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on River Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on River Avenue have injured 97 people, and traffic safety ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 289 of them. Across every category, 649 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 134 reports, and heat and hot water with 94. In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on River Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, River Avenue carries roughly 169 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on River Avenue carries 57 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on River Avenue is pests, at 50 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (30 violations) and doors (28). The housing file lists 5 residential buildings on River Avenue holding 384 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 77 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, River Avenue ranks 33 on cleanliness and 4 on quietness. A 4 on quietness places River Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 12 and housing at 5 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, River Avenue ranks 84 on tree cover and 83 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. River Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on River Avenue is infrastructure, at 53.
About 35% of the 384 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 134 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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