Colfax Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Colfax Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Colfax Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and transit (84). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Colfax Avenue, with 70 reports, and cleanliness ranks 14 among smaller avenues. Behind it sits abandoned vehicle, with 20 reports. The file runs across 20 distinct 311 categories in all. About 27 reports per 100 homes sit on Colfax Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Colfax Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 51 residential buildings on Colfax Avenue hold the 220 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4.3 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 95, with quietness at 38. That 38 on quietness puts Colfax Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 89 and parking at 44. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and tree cover at 48. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Traffic safety is where Colfax Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 98.
Of the 220 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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Colfax Avenue runs through New Dorp, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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