Elm Street, Staten Island: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Elm Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Elm Street in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (50) and tree cover (35). Housing (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Elm Street name abandoned vehicle than any other category, 20 of them. Abandoned vehicle accounts for 13% of the 159 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 19 reports, then blocked driveway at 13. The file runs across 36 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 195 homes on file, that is about 82 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Elm Street carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Elm Street, 12 violations of it. 117 residential buildings on Elm Street hold the 195 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Elm Street since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Elm Street ranks 32 on infrastructure and 19 on cleanliness. That 19 on cleanliness puts Elm Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 22 and traffic safety at 21 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Elm Street ranks 35 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 Elm Street is parking, at 45.
None of the 195 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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Elm Street runs through West New Brighton, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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