Essex Drive, Staten Island: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Essex Drive in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Essex Drive in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and tree cover (61). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Essex Drive, with 54 reports. Across every category, 59 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 92% of them name illegal parking. In all, 23 distinct 311 categories are represented on Essex Drive. The 311 file works out to about 30 reports for every 100 homes on Essex Drive.
The HPD file on Essex Drive holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 38 residential buildings and 196 homes on Essex Drive, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 5.2 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Essex Drive ranks 98 on traffic safety and 41 on parking. That 41 on parking puts Essex Drive in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 96 and quietness at 57 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Essex Drive ranks 43 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 61. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is where Essex Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 99.
Of the 196 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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Essex Drive runs through New Springville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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