Swinton Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does Swinton Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Swinton Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (54) and tree cover (71). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Swinton Avenue, with 142 reports, and parking ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 412 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 66 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 31. The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 293 homes on file, that is about 141 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Swinton Avenue carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Swinton Avenue is pests, at 11 violations. PLUTO counts 213 residential buildings and 293 homes on Swinton Avenue, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 40, with quietness at 7. That 7 on quietness puts Swinton Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 35 and traffic safety at 31 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Swinton Avenue ranks 71 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Swinton Avenue is housing, at 46.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 293 on Swinton Avenue.
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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