Franklin Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data

Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does Franklin Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.

Calm 38, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Franklin Avenue in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (91) and tree cover (51). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Franklin Avenue name missed collection than any other category, 15 of them. The whole 311 file on Franklin Avenue holds 55 reports, and missed collection is 27% of it. After that the file runs to water system (13 reports) and residential disposal complaint (10). Reports on Franklin Avenue span 29 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Franklin Avenue carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 66 residential buildings and 91 homes on Franklin Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Among smaller avenues, Franklin Avenue ranks 80 on cleanliness and 14 on quietness. That 14 on quietness puts Franklin Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 38 and housing at 30 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Franklin Avenue ranks 51 on tree cover, 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 Franklin Avenue is parking, at 91.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 91 on Franklin Avenue.

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

Franklin Avenue runs through St. George, 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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