Central Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Central Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Central Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and transit (86). Housing (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Central Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 15 of them. Residential noise accounts for 11% of the 140 reports on file here. The file runs across 27 distinct 311 categories in all. About 175 reports per 100 homes sit on Central Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Central Avenue carries 27 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. HPD's most-cited category on Central Avenue is paint and lead, at 32 violations. Behind it the file holds structure, at 11 violations. City housing records put 80 homes in 3 residential buildings on Central Avenue, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 27 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Central Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 84, with quietness at 11. An 11 on quietness places Central Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 73 and parking at 66 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 86 and tree cover 47, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Central Avenue ranks 86 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Central Avenue is infrastructure, at 99.
None of the 80 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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Central Avenue runs through 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).