Chelsea Street, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data

Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Chelsea Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.

Calm 75, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Chelsea Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (99) and tree cover (88). Transit (34) 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 Chelsea Street name illegal parking than any other category, 41 of them. Across every category, 55 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 75% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 19 reports, and missed collection with 10. The file runs across 23 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 174 homes on file, that is about 32 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on Chelsea Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 174 homes in 117 residential buildings on Chelsea Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Chelsea Street since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 95 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 41. A 41 on infrastructure places Chelsea Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, housing sits at 58 and quietness at 48. Against every street in the city, Chelsea Street ranks 35 on food nearby and 34 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. Chelsea Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.

None of the 174 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Chelsea Street runs through Tottenville, 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).

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