Starling Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Starling Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.

Calm 35, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Starling Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (73) and food nearby (86). Housing (7) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Starling Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 216 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 65% of the 334 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 56 reports, then residential noise at 52. Reports on Starling Avenue span 40 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Starling Avenue carries roughly 89 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Starling Avenue carries 84 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Starling Avenue is doors, at 59 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (22 violations) and paint and lead (17). City housing records put 375 homes in 28 residential buildings on Starling Avenue, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Starling Avenue holds about 13 homes.

NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on Starling Avenue since 2021.

Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 61, with quietness at 23. Starling Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts cleanliness at 39 and traffic safety at 38 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Starling Avenue ranks 72 on transit and 30 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Starling Avenue, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 73.

The housing file puts 74% of the 375 homes on Starling Avenue in rent stabilization, 280 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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