Riverdale Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Riverdale Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Riverdale Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (68) and tree cover (84). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Riverdale Avenue, with 223 reports. The whole 311 file on Riverdale Avenue holds 666 reports, and illegal parking is 33% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (83 reports) and noise (60). The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. About 84 reports per 100 homes sit on Riverdale Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 30 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Riverdale Avenue, 11 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 10 more. The housing file lists 75 residential buildings on Riverdale Avenue holding 790 homes, with 17 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Since 2021, 49 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 56 among busy avenues and parking ranks 31. That 31 on parking puts Riverdale Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 35 and cleanliness at 31 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Riverdale Avenue ranks 74 on food nearby and 46 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. Riverdale Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Riverdale Avenue is quietness, at 60.
The housing file puts 5% of the 790 homes on Riverdale Avenue in rent stabilization, 38 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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