Selwyn Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Selwyn Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Selwyn Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and transit (89). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Selwyn Avenue, with 65 reports. Across every category, 426 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (58 reports) and unsanitary condition (57). The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on Selwyn Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Selwyn Avenue carries 63 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Selwyn Avenue, 90 violations of it. Pests follows at 67 violations, then structure at 41. 22 residential buildings on Selwyn Avenue hold the 569 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 64 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 16. That 16 on quietness puts Selwyn Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 62 and cleanliness at 33. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and tree cover at 40. Selwyn Avenue ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is where Selwyn Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 55% of the 569 homes on file, 312 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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