Van Cortlandt Avenue E, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Van Cortlandt Avenue E in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Van Cortlandt Avenue E in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and transit (90). Traffic safety (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Cortlandt Avenue E name heat and hot water than any other category, 44 of them. Across every category, 164 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (16 reports) and unsanitary condition (16). The file runs across 38 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 279 homes on file, that is about 59 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 25 Class C violations on Van Cortlandt Avenue E, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 19 violations on file. Structure follows at 11 violations. City housing records put 279 homes in 7 residential buildings on Van Cortlandt Avenue E, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Van Cortlandt Avenue E holds about 40 homes.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on Van Cortlandt Avenue E since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Van Cortlandt Avenue E ranks 73 on parking and 13 on housing. A 13 on housing places Van Cortlandt Avenue E in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 36 and quietness at 26 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 53 and tree cover 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Van Cortlandt Avenue E, at 90. Van Cortlandt Avenue E is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where Van Cortlandt Avenue E ranks best against smaller avenues, at 97.
The housing file puts 79% of the 279 homes on Van Cortlandt Avenue E in rent stabilization, 217 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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Van Cortlandt Avenue E runs through Norwood and Bedford Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).