Elbe Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Elbe Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.

Calm 82, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Elbe Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (92) and transit (56). Food nearby (23) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

The file runs across 10 distinct 311 categories in all.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Elbe Avenue. The housing file lists 68 residential buildings on Elbe Avenue holding 72 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Elbe Avenue since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 86 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 71. That 71 on cleanliness puts Elbe Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 83 and parking at 79. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 43 and food nearby at 23. Elbe Avenue ranks 56 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Infrastructure is where Elbe Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 92.

None of the 72 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

Elbe Avenue runs through Rosebank and Grasmere, 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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