Freedom Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data

Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Freedom Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.

Calm 88, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Freedom Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (99) and tree cover (58). Food nearby (23) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Freedom Avenue, with 29 reports. In all, 19 distinct 311 categories are represented on Freedom Avenue.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Freedom Avenue. City housing records put 233 homes in 100 residential buildings on Freedom Avenue, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Freedom Avenue have injured no one.

Among smaller avenues, Freedom Avenue ranks 99 on housing and 76 on infrastructure. A 76 on infrastructure places Freedom Avenue in the strongest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 97 and parking at 80. Against every street in the city, Freedom Avenue ranks 32 on transit and 23 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 58. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Freedom Avenue is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Freedom Avenue is traffic safety, at 99.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 233 on Freedom 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

Freedom Avenue 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).

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