Cortelyou Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Cortelyou Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Cortelyou Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (100) and tree cover (83). Cleanliness (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
Missed collection is the most-filed complaint on Cortelyou Avenue, with 21 reports, and cleanliness ranks 32 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 63 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name missed collection. Behind it sits illegal parking, with 10 reports. In all, 23 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cortelyou Avenue. Set against the 432 homes on file, that is about 15 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Cortelyou Avenue. 213 residential buildings on Cortelyou Avenue hold the 432 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Cortelyou Avenue holds about 2 homes.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Cortelyou Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Cortelyou Avenue ranks 88 on parking and 43 on traffic safety. That 43 on traffic safety puts Cortelyou Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, housing sits at 62 and quietness at 49. Against every street in the city, Cortelyou Avenue ranks 39 on transit and 39 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. Cortelyou Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Cortelyou Avenue is infrastructure, at 89.
None of the 432 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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Cortelyou Avenue runs through Great Kills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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