Waring Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Waring Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Waring Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (89). Traffic safety (32) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Waring Avenue. 46 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 32 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Waring Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 152 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 50% of the 307 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (87 reports) and heat and hot water (29). The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. About 28 reports per 100 homes sit on Waring Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Waring Avenue carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Waring Avenue is pests, at 12 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 12 more. The housing file lists 194 residential buildings on Waring Avenue holding 1,095 homes, with 16 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.6 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Waring Avenue ranks 91 on cleanliness and 57 on parking. Waring Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on parking. Measured against busy avenues, infrastructure sits at 74 and quietness at 65. Against every street in the city, Waring Avenue ranks 44 on transit and 42 on food nearby. Waring Avenue ranks 89 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is where Waring Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 1,095 homes on file, 123 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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Waring Avenue runs through Pelham Gardens and Allerton, 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).