Yates Avenue, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Yates Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Yates Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and tree cover (89). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Yates Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 129 of them. Across every category, 541 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 118 reports, and residential noise with 89. Reports on Yates Avenue span 51 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Yates Avenue carries roughly 92 reports per 100 of them.
Yates Avenue carries 29 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Yates Avenue, 23 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 17 more. The housing file lists 363 residential buildings on Yates Avenue holding 590 homes, with 36 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Yates Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 43 among busy avenues and parking ranks 11. That 11 on parking puts Yates Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, housing sits at 40 and quietness at 38. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 46. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where Yates Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 86.
None of the 590 homes on file 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.
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