Avenue B, Staten Island: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Avenue B in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.

Calm 22, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Avenue B in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (63) and food nearby (55). Street crime (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Avenue B name heat and hot water than any other category, 11 of them. The whole 311 file on Avenue B holds 40 reports, and heat and hot water is 28% of it. Reports on Avenue B span 27 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 30 homes on file, that is about 133 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on Avenue B carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. PLUTO counts 20 residential buildings and 30 homes on Avenue B, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Avenue B since 2021.

Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 35, with cleanliness at 2. A 2 on cleanliness places Avenue B in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 17 and housing at 5. Transit ranks 43 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 55. Avenue B is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Traffic safety is where Avenue B ranks best against smaller avenues, at 63.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 30 on Avenue B.

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

Avenue B runs through Port Richmond, 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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