Forest Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Forest Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against busy avenues. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Forest Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Forest Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Forest Avenue have injured 354 people, and traffic safety ranks 3 among busy avenues. Residential noise draws more reports than anything else here, 128 of them. The whole 311 file on Forest Avenue holds 650 reports, and residential noise is 20% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (119 reports) and commercial noise (85). The file runs across 92 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 378 homes on file, that is about 172 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 29 Class C violations on Forest Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 19 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 16 violations, then doors at 15. PLUTO counts 190 residential buildings and 378 homes on Forest Avenue, with 11 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among busy avenues, Forest Avenue ranks 79 on quietness and 21 on infrastructure. A 21 on infrastructure places Forest Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 78 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 44. Against every street in the city, Forest Avenue ranks 55 on food nearby and 28 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Forest Avenue is parking, at 90.
Of the 378 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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Forest Avenue runs through West New Brighton, Mariner's Harbor and Port Richmond, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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