Forest Street, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Forest Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Forest Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (87) and tree cover (54). Traffic safety (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Forest Street span 26 distinct 311 categories.
The HPD file on Forest Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 98 homes in 61 residential buildings on Forest Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 83, with quietness at 48. Forest Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on quietness. Housing ranks 74 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 50. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Forest Street, at 54. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Parking is where Forest Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 87.
Of the 98 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 Street runs through New Springville, 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).