Living in Hunts Point: rent, commute and grades

The Bronx · Updated November 2026

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Rent in Hunts Point

$1,363 a month, estimated

Type of homeA room in a 2-bedroom, shared by two

DOverall

Grades compare NYC neighborhoods with each other. How the grades work.

C+Walkability
The average home has 4.4 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 192 places to eat or shop.
C+Food and shopping
Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 29 places to eat, 12 kinds of cuisine, 5.7 large grocery stores and 130 open storefronts.
AParks and green space
100% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 245 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 547 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

CCommunity
15% of households moved in since 2018, 6% are roommates sharing a home, 18% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 11 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
C+Nightlife
About 9 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

FSafety
39.2 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (558 in all).
FQuiet
91 noise complaints to 311 per 1,000 residents in 2025, not counting helicopter complaints, and counting each address at most 12 days a year. That measures how often people complain, not how loud it is.
FBuilding upkeep
68.7 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 18.2 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourHunts Point

Hunts Point is home to the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, one of the largest food distribution centers in the world, which covers 329 acres of the peninsula. Its produce, meat and fish markets include the Fulton Fish Market, which moved here in 2005. Source
Homes are concentrated in a 22-block residential area on the northwest part of the peninsula: a mix of row houses and apartment buildings of two to eight stories, surrounded on all sides by industrial uses. Source
The peninsula was named Hunts Point in the late 1660s after Thomas Hunt, an Englishman. Its first residents, the Munsee people, called the land Quinnahung. Source
Several Hunts Point streets carry the names of the wealthy landowners whose farmhouses and mansions once stood on the peninsula, among them Spofford and Whitlock. Source
Hunts Point was annexed to the Bronx in 1874. After the IRT subway arrived in 1908, homes and apartment buildings went up in the north of the peninsula alongside factories such as the American Bank Note Printing Plant, built in 1909. Source
Each June, THE POINT, a community arts and youth center on Garrison Avenue, leads the free Fish Parade & Arts Festival, a procession through Hunts Point celebrating the community's ties to the Bronx River. Source
The peninsula's waterfront parks include Barretto Point Park and the Tiffany Street Pier in the south, and Hunts Point Riverside Park. Source