Bay Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Bay Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bay Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and tree cover (95). Quietness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Bay Street, with 134 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,500 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 9% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 97 reports, and illegal parking with 68. Reports on Bay Street span 85 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 999 homes on file, that is about 150 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 25 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 51 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 29 violations, then electrical at 24. PLUTO counts 206 residential buildings and 999 homes on Bay Street, with 5 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.8 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 149 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 60, with traffic safety at 11. That 11 on traffic safety puts Bay Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 49 and infrastructure at 41 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 78 and food nearby 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bay Street is parking, at 91.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 999 on Bay Street.
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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Bay Street runs through Rosebank, Tompkinsville and St. George, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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