Van Cortlandt Park S, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Van Cortlandt Park S in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Van Cortlandt Park S in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (88) and tree cover (72). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Van Cortlandt Park S. 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 72 reports. Across every category, 215 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (28 reports) and dirty condition (21). In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on Van Cortlandt Park S. The 311 file works out to about 31 reports for every 100 homes on Van Cortlandt Park S.
Van Cortlandt Park S carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 17 residential buildings on Van Cortlandt Park S holding 684 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 40 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Van Cortlandt Park S ranks 69 on quietness and 14 on cleanliness. A 14 on cleanliness places Van Cortlandt Park S in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 52 and parking at 38 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 65 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Van Cortlandt Park S ranks 72 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Van Cortlandt Park S is housing, at 81.
About 3% of the 684 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 21 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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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).