Drake Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Drake Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 12, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Drake Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and food nearby (23). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
In all, 12 distinct 311 categories are represented on Drake Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Drake Avenue. 49 residential buildings on Drake Avenue hold the 53 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 78 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 38. That 38 on traffic safety puts Drake Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts parking at 69 and infrastructure at 48 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Drake Avenue ranks 10 on tree cover and 6 on transit. Drake Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Drake Avenue is quietness, at 93.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 53 on Drake 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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Drake Avenue runs through Westerleigh, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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