W Burnside Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does W Burnside Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 13, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W Burnside Avenue in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (58) and food nearby (73). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on West Burnside Avenue, with 425 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on West Burnside Avenue holds 971 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 44% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 116 reports, then heat and hot water at 35. Reports on West Burnside Avenue span 44 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West Burnside Avenue carries roughly 278 reports per 100 of them.
West Burnside Avenue carries 45 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West Burnside Avenue is pests, at 66 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (64 violations) and paint and lead (56). The housing file lists 7 residential buildings on West Burnside Avenue holding 349 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 50 homes each.
NYPD records 89 people injured in crashes on West Burnside Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, West Burnside Avenue ranks 36 on parking and 2 on traffic safety. West Burnside Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 15 and housing at 12. Transit ranks 72 and tree cover 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 73. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 58.
Rent stabilization covers about 50% of the 349 homes on file, 175 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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W Burnside Avenue runs through University Heights & Morris 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).