Charleston Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Charleston Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Charleston Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (79) and tree cover (64). Infrastructure (14) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Charleston Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 13 of them. Reports on Charleston Avenue span 14 distinct 311 categories.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Charleston Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 32 residential buildings on Charleston Avenue hold the 55 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 76, with parking at 36. A 36 on parking places Charleston Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 74 and cleanliness at 62. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 64. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Charleston Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Charleston Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 79.
None of the 55 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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Charleston Avenue runs through Arden Heights, 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).