Waterbury Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Waterbury Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.

Calm 22, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Waterbury Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (34) and tree cover (79). Quietness (16) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Waterbury Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 66 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 25% of the 260 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (44 reports) and derelict vehicles (25). In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on Waterbury Avenue. Set against the 297 homes on file, that is about 88 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 25 violations on file. City housing records put 297 homes in 178 residential buildings on Waterbury Avenue, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Waterbury Avenue since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 25 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 17. A 17 on parking places Waterbury Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 24 and infrastructure at 22. Against every street in the city, Waterbury Avenue ranks 45 on food nearby and 38 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. Waterbury Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 34.

Of the 297 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Bronx

Waterbury Avenue runs through Throgs Neck, Westchester Square and Pelham Bay, 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).

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