Clifton Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Clifton Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Clifton Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (72) and tree cover (80). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Missed collection is the most-filed complaint on Clifton Avenue, with 21 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Clifton Avenue holds 67 reports, and missed collection is 31% of it. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Clifton Avenue. About 30 reports per 100 homes sit on Clifton Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 173 residential buildings on Clifton Avenue hold the 221 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 70 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 39. That 39 on housing puts Clifton Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Quietness ranks 55 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 54. Against every street in the city, Clifton Avenue ranks 44 on transit and 39 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Clifton Avenue, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
None of the 221 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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Clifton Avenue 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).