Spofford Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Spofford Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Spofford Avenue in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (71) and tree cover (82). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Spofford Avenue, with 92 reports. Across every category, 439 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water follows with 74 reports, and vehicle noise with 73. In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on Spofford Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 81 reports for every 100 homes on Spofford Avenue.
The HPD file on Spofford Avenue carries 68 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Spofford Avenue is pests, at 78 violations. Paint and lead follows at 55 violations, then mold at 29. PLUTO counts 10 residential buildings and 544 homes on Spofford Avenue, with 5 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 54 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Spofford Avenue have injured 32 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 48 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 16. That 16 on traffic safety puts Spofford Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 36 on the same scale, with quietness at 27. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Spofford Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Spofford Avenue is infrastructure, at 71.
The housing file puts 8% of the 544 homes on Spofford Avenue in rent stabilization, 46 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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