Watson Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Watson Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 15, ranked against busy avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Watson Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (41) and tree cover (88). Street crime (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Watson Avenue name commercial noise than any other category, 125 of them. Across every category, 1,303 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name commercial noise. Residential noise follows with 113 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 98. Reports on Watson Avenue span 69 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 169 reports for every 100 homes on Watson Avenue.
Inspectors have written 73 Class C violations on Watson Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 58 violations on file. Doors follows at 26 violations, then paint and lead at 23. City housing records put 772 homes in 167 residential buildings on Watson Avenue, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Watson Avenue holds about 4.6 homes.
Reported crashes on Watson Avenue have injured 85 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Watson Avenue ranks 32 on housing and 1 on infrastructure. Watson Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. Parking ranks 28 on the same scale, with quietness at 1. Against every street in the city, Watson Avenue ranks 59 on transit and 51 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Watson Avenue, at 88. Watson Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 41.
About 23% of the 772 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 176 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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Watson Avenue runs through Soundview, Bruckner & Bronx River and Castle Hill, 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).