Chesterton Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data

Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Chesterton Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Chesterton Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (96) and tree cover (68). Food nearby (27) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 130 homes on file, that is about 28 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Chesterton Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 119 residential buildings on Chesterton Avenue hold the 130 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Among smaller avenues, Chesterton Avenue ranks 76 on housing and 30 on infrastructure. A 30 on infrastructure places Chesterton Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 59 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 35. Against every street in the city, Chesterton Avenue ranks 55 on transit and 27 on food nearby. Chesterton Avenue ranks 68 on tree cover, 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 Chesterton Avenue is cleanliness, at 86.

Of the 130 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Chesterton Avenue runs through Oakwood, 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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