Schurz Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Schurz Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Schurz Avenue in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (69) and tree cover (78). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Animal-abuse leads the 311 file on Schurz Avenue, with 38 reports. Across every category, 138 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name animal-abuse. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 24 reports, then missed collection at 10. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on Schurz Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 47 reports for every 100 homes on Schurz Avenue.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on Schurz Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 91 residential buildings on Schurz Avenue hold the 293 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 60 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 20. A 20 on quietness places Schurz Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 45 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 41. Against every street in the city, Schurz Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 8 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Schurz Avenue, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Schurz Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 69.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 293 homes on file, 28 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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