Sherman Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Sherman Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 34, 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 Sherman Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (66) and transit (82). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Sherman Avenue, with 207 reports. Across every category, 1,857 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 169 reports, then residential noise at 169. The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,174 homes on file, that is about 158 reports per 100 homes.
Sherman Avenue carries 389 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 33 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Sherman Avenue, 279 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (218 violations) and paint and lead (213). The housing file lists 56 residential buildings on Sherman Avenue holding 1,174 homes, with 41 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 21 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 21 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 66, with quietness at 12. Sherman Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 62 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 23. Food nearby ranks 77 and tree cover 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Sherman Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
About 78% of the 1,174 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 914 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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Sherman Avenue runs through Concourse, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).