Garretson Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Garretson Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Garretson Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (86) and transit (76). Traffic safety (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Garretson Avenue, with 15 reports. Across every category, 61 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (12 reports) and water system (11). In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Garretson Avenue. About 33 reports per 100 homes sit on Garretson Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Garretson Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 187 homes in 131 residential buildings on Garretson Avenue, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Garretson Avenue ranks 77 on housing and 41 on cleanliness. Garretson Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on cleanliness. Quietness ranks 76 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 51. Tree cover ranks 74 and food nearby 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Garretson Avenue ranks 76 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
Of the 187 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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Garretson Avenue runs through Grasmere, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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