Giffords Lane, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Giffords Lane in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Giffords Lane in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and tree cover (71). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Missed collection is the most-filed complaint on Giffords Lane, with 10 reports. The whole 311 file on Giffords Lane holds 66 reports, and missed collection is 15% of it. In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on Giffords Lane. Divided by the homes on file, Giffords Lane carries roughly 35 reports per 100 of them.
Giffords Lane carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 134 residential buildings and 191 homes on Giffords Lane, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Giffords Lane ranks 84 on parking and 10 on traffic safety. That 10 on traffic safety puts Giffords Lane in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 80 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 17. Transit ranks 37 and food nearby 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 71. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Giffords Lane is scored inside.
Quietness is where Giffords Lane ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 98.
Of the 191 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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Giffords Lane runs through Great Kills, 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).