Castleton Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Castleton Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Castleton Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and tree cover (85). Traffic safety (20) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Castleton Avenue. 162 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 20 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Castleton Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 85 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 13% of the 637 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (64 reports) and missed collection (49). Reports on Castleton Avenue span 82 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 970 homes on file, that is about 66 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 59 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 63 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (35 violations) and doors (32). PLUTO counts 334 residential buildings and 970 homes on Castleton Avenue, with 25 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Castleton Avenue holds about 2.9 homes.
Among busy avenues, Castleton Avenue ranks 90 on parking and 50 on infrastructure. A 50 on infrastructure places Castleton Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 84 on the same scale, with housing at 57. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 45 and transit at 34. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Castleton Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
The housing file puts 1% of the 970 homes on Castleton Avenue in rent stabilization, 8 homes in all.
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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Castleton Avenue runs through West New Brighton and Port Richmond, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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