Sycamore Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Sycamore Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.

Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Sycamore Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (78) and food nearby (23). Infrastructure (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Sycamore Avenue, with 26 reports. Across every category, 30 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 87% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Sycamore Avenue span 8 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Sycamore Avenue carries roughly 150 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Sycamore Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 19 residential buildings on Sycamore Avenue holding 20 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Sycamore Avenue have injured no one.

Among smaller avenues, Sycamore Avenue ranks 55 on traffic safety and 8 on parking. That 8 on parking puts Sycamore Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 52 and cleanliness at 44 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 20 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Sycamore Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby, 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 Sycamore Avenue is quietness, at 78.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 20 on Sycamore 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.

Nearest streets in Bronx

Sycamore Avenue runs through Riverdale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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