Summit Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Summit Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Summit Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and tree cover (60). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Summit Avenue, with 187 reports. Across every category, 1,160 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 182 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 95. In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on Summit Avenue. About 170 reports per 100 homes sit on Summit Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 260 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 38 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Summit Avenue, 162 violations of it. Doors follows at 142 violations, then paint and lead at 126. 63 residential buildings on Summit Avenue hold the 684 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 81, with quietness at 4. Summit Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on quietness. The card also puts cleanliness at 60 and parking at 50 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 55 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Summit Avenue ranks 60 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Summit Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 97.
The housing file puts 54% of the 684 homes on Summit Avenue in rent stabilization, 360 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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