Shakespeare Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Shakespeare Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Shakespeare Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (69) and transit (80). Housing (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Shakespeare Avenue name unsanitary condition than any other category, 461 of them. Across every category, 1,508 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name unsanitary condition. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (275 reports) and residential noise (195). In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on Shakespeare Avenue. Set against the 1,463 homes on file, that is about 103 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Shakespeare Avenue carries 381 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 26 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Shakespeare Avenue, 246 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 171 more, and doors for 133. PLUTO counts 71 residential buildings and 1,463 homes on Shakespeare Avenue, with 16 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 21 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Shakespeare Avenue have injured 21 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, traffic safety comes in at 68, with cleanliness at 12. That 12 on cleanliness puts Shakespeare Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 41 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 41. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 76 and food nearby at 75. Shakespeare Avenue ranks 80 on transit, 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 Shakespeare Avenue is parking, at 69.
Rent stabilization covers about 60% of the 1,463 homes on file, 883 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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Shakespeare Avenue runs through Highbridge, Mount Eden and University Heights & Morris Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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