Seward Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Seward Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against busy avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Seward Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and tree cover (81). Transit (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Seward Avenue, with 145 reports. Across every category, 681 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (80 reports) and illegal parking (67). The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Seward Avenue carries roughly 51 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 123 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Seward Avenue is pests, at 135 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (109 violations) and doors (106). City housing records put 1,329 homes in 120 residential buildings on Seward Avenue, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 33 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Seward Avenue ranks 88 on cleanliness and 32 on housing. That 32 on housing puts Seward Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Parking ranks 79 on the same scale, with quietness at 44. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Seward Avenue ranks 81 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Seward Avenue is infrastructure, at 93.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,329 on Seward 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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