Columbus Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Columbus Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against major corridors. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts Columbus Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (92) and transit (55). Food nearby (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 11 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Columbus Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 27 residential buildings on Columbus Avenue hold the 30 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among major corridors, Columbus Avenue ranks 74 on housing and 46 on traffic safety. A 46 on traffic safety places Columbus Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. Cleanliness ranks 66 on the same scale, with parking at 53. Tree cover ranks 31 and food nearby 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Columbus Avenue ranks 55 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 30 on Columbus 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.
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Columbus Avenue runs through Grasmere, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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