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

Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Fern Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.

Calm 75, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Fern Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (85) and transit (45). Food nearby (23) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Reports on Fern Avenue span 8 distinct 311 categories.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Fern Avenue. City housing records put 56 homes in 35 residential buildings on Fern 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.

Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 80 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 62. Fern Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 77 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 63. Tree cover ranks 44 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Fern Avenue ranks 45 on transit, 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 Fern Avenue is parking, at 85.

Of the 56 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Fern Avenue runs through Great Kills, 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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