Story Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Story Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Story Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and tree cover (91). Quietness (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Story Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 208 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Story Avenue holds 1,144 reports, and residential noise is 18% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 147 reports, and noise with 69. The file runs across 70 distinct 311 categories in all. About 53 reports per 100 homes sit on Story Avenue, counting every category.
Story Avenue carries 124 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Story Avenue, 195 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (71 violations) and pests (46). City housing records put 2,175 homes in 150 residential buildings on Story Avenue, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 15 homes each.
Since 2021, 81 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 67 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 39. That 39 on traffic safety puts Story Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 56 and housing at 44 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 36, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Story Avenue, at 91. Story Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
The housing file puts 21% of the 2,175 homes on Story Avenue in rent stabilization, 449 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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Story Avenue runs through Soundview & Clason Point, Castle Hill and Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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