Benson Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Benson Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Benson Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and tree cover (49). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Benson Street name illegal parking than any other category, 16 of them. Abandoned vehicle follows with 12 reports. The file runs across 8 distinct 311 categories in all.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Benson Street. PLUTO counts 33 residential buildings and 43 homes on Benson Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 68 among quiet residential streets and parking ranks 21. That 21 on parking puts Benson Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 66 on the same scale, with housing at 39. Transit ranks 22 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 49. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Benson Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 93.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 43 on Benson 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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Benson Street runs through Arden Heights, 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).