College Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does College Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts College Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (85). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Street condition leads the 311 file on College Avenue, with 18 reports. The whole 311 file on College Avenue holds 49 reports, and street condition is 37% of it. Overgrown tree and branches is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then damaged tree at 10. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on College Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, College Avenue carries roughly 21 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on College Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 231 homes in 187 residential buildings on College Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on College Avenue have injured 8 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 91 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 17. A 17 on traffic safety places College Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 86 and infrastructure at 24. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 27 and transit at 8. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band College Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
None of the 231 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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College Avenue runs through Westerleigh, 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).