Washington Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Washington Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Washington Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and tree cover (93). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Washington Avenue, with 5,535 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 13,038 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (1,595 reports) and heat and hot water (1,272). The file runs across 90 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 4,254 homes on file, that is about 306 reports per 100 homes.
Washington Avenue carries 1,124 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 26 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Washington Avenue is pests, at 753 violations. Paint and lead follows at 594 violations, then doors at 528. City housing records put 4,254 homes in 190 residential buildings on Washington Avenue, 72 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 26 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 22 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Washington Avenue have injured 99 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Washington Avenue ranks 73 on parking and 11 on housing. An 11 on housing places Washington Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 61 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 56. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Washington Avenue, at 93. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Washington Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Washington Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 85.
39% of the 4,254 homes recorded on Washington Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,672 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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