Dawson Street, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data

Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Dawson Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.

Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 14, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Dawson Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (88) and tree cover (22). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

Reports on Dawson Street span 5 distinct 311 categories.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Dawson Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 13 residential buildings on Dawson Street hold the 24 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Among quiet residential streets, Dawson Street ranks 64 on housing and 40 on infrastructure. Dawson Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 51 and traffic safety at 47 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 12 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Dawson Street ranks 22 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Dawson Street is parking, at 88.

None of the 24 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Dawson Street runs through Todt Hill, 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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