Seneca Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Seneca Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Seneca Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and transit (76). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Seneca Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 46 of them. Across every category, 287 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (36 reports) and paint and plaster (17). In all, 33 distinct 311 categories are represented on Seneca Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Seneca Avenue carries roughly 104 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Seneca Avenue carries 70 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 25 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Seneca Avenue, 30 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 26 violations, then plumbing at 21. 14 residential buildings on Seneca Avenue hold the 275 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 20 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Seneca Avenue have injured 12 people since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 65, with traffic safety at 22. That 22 on traffic safety puts Seneca Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 33 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 32. Against every street in the city, Seneca Avenue ranks 68 on food nearby and 50 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 76. Seneca Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 56% of the 275 homes on file, 149 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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