University Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does University Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts University Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (86) and tree cover (85). Housing (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on University Avenue, with 2,146 reports. Across every category, 7,734 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (1,058 reports) and illegal parking (607). Reports on University Avenue span 94 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 12,695 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on University Avenue carries 1,462 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on University Avenue, 833 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 775 more, and doors for 679. 241 residential buildings on University Avenue hold the 12,695 homes on file, 130 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 52 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 53 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on University Avenue have injured 334 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, University Avenue ranks 86 on parking and 28 on quietness. That 28 on quietness puts University Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 76 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 48. The citywide frame puts transit at 67 and food nearby at 67. University Avenue ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
39% of the 12,695 homes recorded on University Avenue are rent-stabilized, 4,722 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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