Van Buren Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does Van Buren Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Van Buren Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (62) and transit (87). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Buren Street name illegal parking than any other category, 146 of them. The whole 311 file on Van Buren Street holds 485 reports, and illegal parking is 30% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 50 reports, and heat and hot water with 26. The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Van Buren Street carries roughly 296 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 86 Class C violations on Van Buren Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 52 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Van Buren Street is pests, at 40 violations. Plumbing accounts for 22 more, and paint and lead for 18. City housing records put 164 homes in 55 residential buildings on Van Buren Street, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 41 among quiet residential streets and parking ranks 5. Van Buren Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on parking. Traffic safety ranks 36 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 17. Against every street in the city, Van Buren Street ranks 42 on food nearby and 22 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Van Buren Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 62.
The housing file puts 18% of the 164 homes on Van Buren Street in rent stabilization, 29 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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