Braisted Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data

Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Braisted Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.

Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Braisted Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (63) and tree cover (62). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Braisted Avenue, with 13 reports, and cleanliness ranks 6 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 46 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. Missed collection follows with 10 reports. The file runs across 27 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 150 homes on file, that is about 31 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Braisted Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 150 homes in 117 residential buildings on Braisted Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Among smaller avenues, Braisted Avenue ranks 60 on quietness and 42 on housing. Braisted Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 58 and traffic safety at 56. Against every street in the city, Braisted Avenue ranks 12 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Braisted Avenue ranks 62 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Braisted Avenue is infrastructure, at 63.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 150 on Braisted 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Braisted Avenue runs through New Springville, 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).

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