Van Cortlandt Avenue W, Bronx: Grade F · 311 & City Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Van Cortlandt Avenue W in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Van Cortlandt Avenue W in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (81) and transit (59). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Cortlandt Avenue W name illegal parking than any other category, 25 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 22% of the 116 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed, with 23 reports. Reports on Van Cortlandt Avenue W span 32 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Van Cortlandt Avenue W carries roughly 136 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Van Cortlandt Avenue W holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 21 residential buildings on Van Cortlandt Avenue W hold the 85 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Van Cortlandt Avenue W ranks 36 on housing and 6 on traffic safety. That 6 on traffic safety puts Van Cortlandt Avenue W in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 25 and quietness at 6. Food nearby ranks 27 and tree cover 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Van Cortlandt Avenue W ranks 59 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
The housing file puts 52% of the 85 homes on Van Cortlandt Avenue W in rent stabilization, 44 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 W runs through Kingsbridge Heights, 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).