Amsterdam Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data

Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Amsterdam Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.

Calm 69, ranked against major corridors. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.

That puts Amsterdam Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (98) and tree cover (62). Transit (19) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Amsterdam Avenue, with 10 reports. Across every category, 33 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Amsterdam Avenue span 18 distinct 311 categories. About 27 reports per 100 homes sit on Amsterdam Avenue, counting every category.

The HPD file on Amsterdam Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 67 residential buildings on Amsterdam Avenue hold the 122 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Against major corridors, cleanliness comes in at 76, with parking at 25. That 25 on parking puts Amsterdam Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts housing at 71 and infrastructure at 29 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Amsterdam Avenue ranks 62 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Amsterdam Avenue is quietness, at 81.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 122 on Amsterdam 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Amsterdam Avenue runs through New Springville, 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).

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