Southern Boulevard, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Southern Boulevard in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against major corridors. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Southern Boulevard in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (37) and tree cover (96). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Southern Boulevard, with 795 reports. The whole 311 file on Southern Boulevard holds 4,000 reports, and heat and hot water is 20% of it. Residential noise follows with 464 reports, and illegal parking with 390. Reports on Southern Boulevard span 101 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 3,929 homes on file, that is about 102 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 723 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 18 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Southern Boulevard, 571 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 434 violations, then doors at 394. 152 residential buildings on Southern Boulevard hold the 3,929 homes on file, 89 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 31 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Southern Boulevard have injured 403 people since 2021.
Among major corridors, Southern Boulevard ranks 37 on parking and 4 on housing. That 4 on housing puts Southern Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. The card also puts traffic safety at 26 and cleanliness at 11 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, Southern Boulevard ranks 61 on transit and 59 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Southern Boulevard, at 96. Southern Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 37.
About 59% of the 3,929 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 2,284 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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