Brighton Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311 & City Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does Brighton Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Brighton Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (59) and tree cover (43). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Brighton Avenue, with 17 reports. Across every category, 142 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 12% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street condition (14 reports) and water system (11). The file runs across 34 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 158 homes on file, that is about 90 reports per 100 homes.
Brighton Avenue carries 23 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 35 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (32 violations) and plumbing (16). 83 residential buildings on Brighton Avenue hold the 158 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 15 people injured in crashes on Brighton Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 58 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 11. That 11 on traffic safety puts Brighton Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 24 and infrastructure at 17 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 23 and transit 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Brighton Avenue ranks 43 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
Of the 158 homes on file, none 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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Brighton Avenue runs through West New Brighton and 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).