Adams Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Adams Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Adams Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and tree cover (73). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Adams Avenue name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 32 of them, and cleanliness ranks 13 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Adams Avenue holds 131 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 24% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 25 reports, and vehicle noise with 22. Reports on Adams Avenue span 41 distinct 311 categories. About 53 reports per 100 homes sit on Adams Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Adams Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 181 residential buildings on Adams Avenue holding 249 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Adams Avenue ranks 72 on housing and 17 on quietness. Adams Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 38 and infrastructure at 25. Transit ranks 60 and food nearby 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Adams Avenue ranks 73 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Adams Avenue is traffic safety, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 249 on Adams Avenue.
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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Adams Avenue runs through New Dorp, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Staten Island, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Brooklyn vs Staten Island: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).