Benziger Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Benziger Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Benziger Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and tree cover (63). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Benziger Avenue name vehicle noise than any other category, 122 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Across every category, 193 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 63% of them name vehicle noise. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 16 reports, then heat and hot water at 15. In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on Benziger Avenue. Set against the 161 homes on file, that is about 120 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 25 Class C violations on Benziger Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Benziger Avenue is pests, at 54 violations. Structure accounts for 25 more, and doors for 23. City housing records put 161 homes in 82 residential buildings on Benziger Avenue, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Benziger Avenue ranks 57 on infrastructure and 4 on housing. That 4 on housing puts Benziger Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 34 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 12. Against every street in the city, Benziger Avenue ranks 47 on transit and 45 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 63. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Benziger Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Benziger Avenue is parking, at 68.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 161 on Benziger 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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Benziger Avenue runs through St. George, 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).