Zerega Avenue, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Zerega Avenue in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against busy avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Zerega Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (59) and tree cover (91). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
General leads the 311 file on Zerega Avenue, with 113 reports. Across every category, 533 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name general. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (102 reports) and illegal parking (72). Reports on Zerega Avenue span 70 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Zerega Avenue carries roughly 159 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Zerega Avenue carries 46 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 Zerega Avenue, 66 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 28 violations, then paint and lead at 26. PLUTO counts 119 residential buildings and 335 homes on Zerega Avenue, with 32 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.8 homes each.
Since 2021, 81 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 43, with traffic safety at 6. A 6 on traffic safety places Zerega Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 31 and parking at 17 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 32 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Zerega Avenue ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where Zerega Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 59.
Rent stabilization covers about 20% of the 335 homes on file, 66 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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Zerega Avenue runs through Castle Hill and Westchester Square, 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).