Bowen Street, Staten Island: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Bowen Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Bowen Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and tree cover (34). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bowen Street name residential noise than any other category, 21 of them. The whole 311 file on Bowen Street holds 196 reports, and residential noise is 11% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 13 reports. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 167 homes on file, that is about 117 reports per 100 homes.
Bowen Street carries 110 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 66 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 93 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 16 violations, then heat and hot water at 16. PLUTO counts 12 residential buildings and 167 homes on Bowen Street, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Bowen Street holds about 14 homes.
Among quiet residential streets, Bowen Street ranks 94 on cleanliness and 26 on traffic safety. That 26 on traffic safety puts Bowen Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 84 on the same scale, with quietness at 32. Transit ranks 33 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 34. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Parking is where Bowen Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 96.
None of the 167 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Bowen Street runs through Rosebank, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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