Willis Avenue, Bronx: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Willis Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Willis Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (87). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Willis Avenue, with 189 reports. The whole 311 file on Willis Avenue holds 963 reports, and heat and hot water is 20% of it. After that the file runs to plumbing (105 reports) and residential noise (52). The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,579 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Willis Avenue carries 255 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Willis Avenue, 193 violations of it. Pests follows at 129 violations, then paint and lead at 129. The housing file lists 45 residential buildings on Willis Avenue holding 1,579 homes, with 27 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 35 homes each.
NYPD records 105 people injured in crashes on Willis Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Willis Avenue ranks 88 on quietness and 23 on housing. Willis Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 81 and traffic safety at 26 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 86 and tree cover 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Willis Avenue, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 36% of the 1,579 homes on file, 562 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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