Spencer Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Spencer Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Spencer Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and tree cover (52). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Spencer Avenue, with 71 reports, and parking ranks 8 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Spencer Avenue holds 76 reports, and illegal parking is 93% of it. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 31 reports, then blocked driveway at 17. In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Spencer Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 77 reports for every 100 homes on Spencer Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Spencer Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 57 residential buildings on Spencer Avenue holding 99 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Spencer Avenue ranks 51 on infrastructure and 25 on cleanliness. That 25 on cleanliness puts Spencer Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 41 and traffic safety at 30 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Spencer Avenue ranks 51 on food nearby and 33 on transit. Spencer Avenue ranks 52 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Spencer Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 67.
None of the 99 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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