Alter Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Alter Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Alter Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (91) and tree cover (78). Cleanliness (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Alter Avenue, with 26 reports, and cleanliness ranks 39 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 58 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 17 reports, and residential noise with 17. In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Alter Avenue. Set against the 221 homes on file, that is about 26 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Alter Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 221 homes in 150 residential buildings on Alter Avenue, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Alter Avenue ranks 66 on infrastructure and 54 on traffic safety. Alter Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Parking ranks 63 on the same scale, with quietness at 54. The citywide frame puts transit at 72 and food nearby at 51. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Alter Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Of the 221 homes on file, none 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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Alter Avenue runs through Grasmere, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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