Cotter Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Cotter Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Cotter Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (94) and tree cover (57). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Cotter Avenue, with 24 reports. Across every category, 33 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 73% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Cotter Avenue span 19 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 104 homes on file, that is about 32 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Cotter Avenue. 82 residential buildings on Cotter Avenue hold the 104 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Cotter Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 90, with cleanliness at 13. A 13 on cleanliness places Cotter Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 68 and parking at 33. Transit ranks 20 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Cotter Avenue ranks 57 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where Cotter Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 94.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 104 on Cotter 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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Cotter Avenue runs through Great Kills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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