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

Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Colony Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.

Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Colony Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (94) and tree cover (41). Housing (19) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 21 distinct 311 categories in all. About 44 reports per 100 homes sit on Colony Avenue, counting every category.

The HPD file on Colony Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 114 homes in 98 residential buildings on Colony Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Colony Avenue have injured no one.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 80 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 30. Colony Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 36 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 36. Against every street in the city, Colony Avenue ranks 30 on transit and 27 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Colony Avenue, at 41. Colony Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Traffic safety is where Colony Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 94.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 114 on Colony Avenue.

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

Colony Avenue runs through New Dorp, 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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