Forrestal Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Forrestal Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Forrestal Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (84) and tree cover (50). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Forrestal Avenue, with 11 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Reports on Forrestal Avenue span 15 distinct 311 categories.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Forrestal Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 53 residential buildings on Forrestal Avenue hold the 63 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Forrestal Avenue have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 80 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 26. That 26 on parking puts Forrestal Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 77 and infrastructure at 26 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Forrestal Avenue ranks 21 on transit and 12 on food nearby. Forrestal Avenue ranks 50 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where Forrestal Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 83.
None of the 63 homes on file 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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Forrestal Avenue runs through Arden Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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