Benton Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Benton Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Benton Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (86) and transit (71). Traffic safety (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Benton Avenue, with 10 reports. Reports on Benton Avenue span 18 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Benton Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 61 homes in 54 residential buildings on Benton Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Benton Avenue ranks 70 on cleanliness and 37 on parking. That 37 on parking puts Benton Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 56 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 44. Food nearby ranks 55 and tree cover 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Benton Avenue is housing, at 86.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 61 on Benton 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.
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Benton Avenue runs through Grasmere, 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).