Waldo Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does Waldo Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against busy avenues. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Waldo Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and food nearby (65). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Waldo Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 414 of them, and parking ranks 8 among busy avenues. Across every category, 506 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 82% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 71 reports, and blocked driveway with 57. In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on Waldo Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Waldo Avenue carries roughly 67 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Waldo Avenue carries 11 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 51 residential buildings on Waldo Avenue hold the 757 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 15 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Waldo Avenue have injured no one.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 83, with cleanliness at 30. A 30 on cleanliness places Waldo Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 63 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 40. The citywide frame puts transit at 64 and tree cover at 55. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Waldo Avenue, at 65. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Waldo Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 757 homes on file, 111 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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