Union Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Union Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Union Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (68) and tree cover (89). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Union Avenue, with 323 reports. Across every category, 1,730 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 315 reports, then heat and hot water at 203. Reports on Union Avenue span 62 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,481 homes on file, that is about 117 reports per 100 homes.
Union Avenue carries 295 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 20 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 265 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (194 violations) and structure (175). 130 residential buildings on Union Avenue hold the 1,481 homes on file, 74 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
NYPD records 29 people injured in crashes on Union Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Union Avenue ranks 67 on traffic safety and 13 on housing. Union Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 43 and quietness at 17. Against every street in the city, Union Avenue ranks 69 on transit and 57 on food nearby. Union Avenue ranks 89 on tree cover, 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 Union Avenue is infrastructure, at 68.
The housing file puts 43% of the 1,481 homes on Union Avenue in rent stabilization, 628 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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