Topping Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Topping Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Topping Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and transit (78). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Topping Avenue, with 141 reports. Across every category, 860 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 113 reports, and unsanitary condition with 62. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on Topping Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Topping Avenue carries roughly 161 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Topping Avenue carries 225 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 42 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Topping Avenue is paint and lead, at 124 violations. Pests accounts for 104 more, and structure for 83. City housing records put 533 homes in 65 residential buildings on Topping Avenue, 43 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 8.2 homes each.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 60, with quietness at 7. That 7 on quietness puts Topping Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 41 and cleanliness at 20 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 65 and tree cover 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Topping Avenue ranks 78 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Topping Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
The housing file puts 49% of the 533 homes on Topping Avenue in rent stabilization, 260 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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