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

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Burnside Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Burnside Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (89) and food nearby (78). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.

On the record

Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on Burnside Avenue, with 13 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among smaller avenues. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Burnside Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 53 residential buildings on Burnside Avenue holding 64 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 71, with parking at 39. Burnside Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 47 and infrastructure at 44. The citywide frame puts transit at 24 and tree cover at 9. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Burnside Avenue, at 78. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Burnside Avenue is scored inside.

Housing is where Burnside Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 89.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 64 on Burnside 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

Burnside Avenue runs through Westerleigh, 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).

The full report for Burnside Avenue