Elwood Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Elwood Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Elwood Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (86) and transit (43). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Elwood Avenue, with 12 reports. Across every category, 38 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. Reports on Elwood Avenue span 11 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 71 homes on file, that is about 54 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Elwood Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 71 homes in 48 residential buildings on Elwood Avenue, 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.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 82, with parking at 13. That 13 on parking puts Elwood Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 72 and quietness at 67 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 40 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Elwood Avenue, at 43. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where Elwood Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 86.
Of the 71 homes on file, none 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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Elwood Avenue runs through New Springville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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