Valentine Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Valentine Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Valentine Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (62) and transit (92). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Valentine Avenue, with 794 reports. The whole 311 file on Valentine Avenue holds 5,423 reports, and heat and hot water is 15% of it. Residential noise follows with 565 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 329. Reports on Valentine Avenue span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 129 reports for every 100 homes on Valentine Avenue.
HPD has cited 1,281 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 30 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 814 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 790 violations, then structure at 427. PLUTO counts 220 residential buildings and 4,205 homes on Valentine Avenue, with 94 walk-ups and 33 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Reported crashes on Valentine Avenue have injured 102 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 61 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 14. A 14 on quietness places Valentine Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 55 and traffic safety at 54 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Valentine Avenue ranks 90 on tree cover and 80 on food nearby. Valentine Avenue ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Valentine Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Valentine Avenue is parking, at 62.
About 68% of the 4,205 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 2,868 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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