Soundview Avenue, Bronx: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 22 out of 100. How does Soundview Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 22 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against busy avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Soundview Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (53) and tree cover (79). Street crime (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Soundview Avenue, with 315 reports. Across every category, 579 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 54% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 122 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 49. Reports on Soundview Avenue span 61 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 248 homes on file, that is about 233 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 22 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 25 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (22 violations) and heat and hot water (15). The housing file lists 100 residential buildings on Soundview Avenue holding 248 homes, with 31 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Since 2021, 37 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Soundview Avenue ranks 29 on parking and 4 on cleanliness. Soundview Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 26 on the same scale, with quietness at 5. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Soundview Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Soundview Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 53.
6% of the 248 homes recorded on Soundview Avenue are rent-stabilized, 16 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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Soundview Avenue runs through Soundview & Clason Point and Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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