Chess Loop, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Chess Loop in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 16, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Chess Loop in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (82) and transit (18). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 6 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Chess Loop, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 27 residential buildings on Chess Loop holding 27 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Chess Loop since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 68 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 29. A 29 on infrastructure places Chess Loop in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 65 and cleanliness at 40. Food nearby ranks 12 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 18. Chess Loop is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
Of the 27 homes on file, none 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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Chess Loop runs through Great Kills, 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).