Canal Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Canal Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Canal Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and transit (69). Cleanliness (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Water system is the most-filed complaint on Canal Street, with 10 reports, and cleanliness ranks 25 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 61 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name water system. The file runs across 28 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 69 homes on file, that is about 88 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 4 Class C violations on Canal Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 20 residential buildings on Canal Street hold the 69 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.5 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 73 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 28. Canal Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 69 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 52. Against every street in the city, Canal Street ranks 63 on food nearby and 59 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Canal Street, at 69. Canal Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 69 on Canal Street.
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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Canal Street runs through Tompkinsville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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