Van Nest Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Van Nest Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against busy avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Van Nest Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (67) and tree cover (88). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Van Nest Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 510 of them. The whole 311 file on Van Nest Avenue holds 1,446 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 266 reports, and residential noise with 100. In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on Van Nest Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Van Nest Avenue carries roughly 219 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Van Nest Avenue carries 70 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Van Nest Avenue, 76 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 41 violations, then doors at 20. PLUTO counts 263 residential buildings and 660 homes on Van Nest Avenue, with 92 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Van Nest Avenue holds about 2.5 homes.
NYPD records 66 people injured in crashes on Van Nest Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Van Nest Avenue ranks 36 on housing and 8 on parking. That 8 on parking puts Van Nest Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 32 and traffic safety at 21 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 60 and food nearby 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Van Nest Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 660 homes on file, 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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