Saxon Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 25 out of 100. How does Saxon Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 25 out of 100.
Calm 14, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Saxon Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (42) and transit (56). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Saxon Avenue, with 28 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Saxon Avenue holds 166 reports, and residential noise is 17% of it. Illegal parking follows with 19 reports, and noise with 13. The file runs across 32 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 65 homes on file, that is about 255 reports per 100 homes.
Saxon Avenue carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. PLUTO counts 15 residential buildings and 65 homes on Saxon Avenue, with 6 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Saxon Avenue holds about 4.3 homes.
Among smaller avenues, Saxon Avenue ranks 12 on parking and 2 on quietness. A 2 on quietness places Saxon Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 5 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 4. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 56 and food nearby at 18. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 56. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 42.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 65 on Saxon 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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Saxon Avenue runs through Kingsbridge Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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