Wayne Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Wayne Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Wayne Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (84) and food nearby (72). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Wayne Avenue, with 245 reports. Residential noise follows with 31 reports, and door and window with 14. Reports on Wayne Avenue span 30 distinct 311 categories. About 47 reports per 100 homes sit on Wayne Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 19 Class C violations on Wayne Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 28 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 28 violations, then pests at 21. PLUTO counts 18 residential buildings and 365 homes on Wayne Avenue, with 3 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 20 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Wayne Avenue ranks 68 on parking and 35 on quietness. That 35 on quietness puts Wayne Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 42 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 38. Against every street in the city, Wayne Avenue ranks 66 on transit and 38 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 72. Wayne Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Wayne Avenue is infrastructure, at 84.
Rent stabilization covers about 16% of the 365 homes on file, 59 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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