Downes Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Downes Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 84, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Downes Avenue in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (93) and tree cover (82). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Reports on Downes Avenue span 20 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Downes Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 62 residential buildings on Downes Avenue hold the 98 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Downes Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 89 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 51. Downes Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts parking at 86 and cleanliness at 79 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Downes Avenue ranks 50 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Downes Avenue, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
None of the 98 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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Downes Avenue runs through Annadale, 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).