Wheeler Avenue, Bronx: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Wheeler Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against busy avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Wheeler Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (52) and food nearby (78). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Wheeler Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 132 of them. The whole 311 file on Wheeler Avenue holds 751 reports, and heat and hot water is 18% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (122 reports) and blocked driveway (110). The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. About 111 reports per 100 homes sit on Wheeler Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Wheeler Avenue carries 92 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Wheeler Avenue, 99 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 64 more, and paint and lead for 39. PLUTO counts 165 residential buildings and 679 homes on Wheeler Avenue, with 107 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Wheeler Avenue have injured 18 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 34 among busy avenues and cleanliness ranks 9. That 9 on cleanliness puts Wheeler Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 19 and infrastructure at 15 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 76 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 52.
The housing file puts 30% of the 679 homes on Wheeler Avenue in rent stabilization, 200 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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