Sampson Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 21 out of 100. How does Sampson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 21 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Sampson Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (77) and tree cover (59). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Sampson Avenue, with 84 reports. Across every category, 362 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (54 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (53). The file runs across 32 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Sampson Avenue carries roughly 398 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Sampson Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 54 residential buildings on Sampson Avenue hold the 91 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 35 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 1. Sampson Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. Housing ranks 19 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 10. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 6. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Sampson Avenue, at 59. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 91 on Sampson 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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Sampson Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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