Townsend Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Townsend Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Townsend Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and transit (91). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Townsend Avenue, with 412 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,958 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 330 reports, then residential noise at 201. In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on Townsend Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 118 reports for every 100 homes on Townsend Avenue.
Townsend Avenue carries 324 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Townsend Avenue, 141 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (129 violations) and doors (126). The housing file lists 47 residential buildings on Townsend Avenue holding 1,663 homes, with 17 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 35 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Townsend Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Townsend Avenue ranks 67 on parking and 14 on housing. That 14 on housing puts Townsend Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 32 and cleanliness at 21 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Townsend Avenue ranks 77 on food nearby and 73 on tree cover. Townsend Avenue ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Townsend Avenue is traffic safety, at 91.
The housing file puts 82% of the 1,663 homes on Townsend Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,366 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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