Cary Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does Cary Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Cary Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (40) and tree cover (71). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle is the most-filed complaint on Cary Avenue, with 29 reports. Across every category, 211 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name abandoned vehicle. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 21 reports, then blocked driveway at 17. Reports on Cary Avenue span 35 distinct 311 categories. About 106 reports per 100 homes sit on Cary Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Cary Avenue carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cary Avenue is pests, at 11 violations. City housing records put 200 homes in 111 residential buildings on Cary Avenue, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Cary Avenue have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Cary Avenue ranks 38 on parking and 14 on cleanliness. A 14 on cleanliness places Cary Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 36 and traffic safety at 23 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Cary Avenue ranks 39 on food nearby and 27 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Cary Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Cary Avenue is infrastructure, at 40.
None of the 200 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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Cary Avenue runs through Port Richmond and West New Brighton, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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