Cliff Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Cliff Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Cliff Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and food nearby (42). Transit (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Abandoned vehicle is the most-filed complaint on Cliff Street, with 12 reports. The whole 311 file on Cliff Street holds 48 reports, and abandoned vehicle is 25% of it. Reports on Cliff Street span 14 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 32 reports for every 100 homes on Cliff Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Cliff Street. 24 residential buildings on Cliff Street hold the 150 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Cliff Street holds about 6.3 homes.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Cliff Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 96, with quietness at 19. Cliff Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. Cleanliness ranks 93 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 37. Against every street in the city, Cliff Street ranks 26 on tree cover and 18 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 42. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Cliff Street is scored inside.
Housing is where Cliff Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 150 on Cliff Street.
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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Cliff Street runs through Rosebank, 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).