Henderson Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Henderson Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Henderson Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (79). Street crime (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Henderson Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Henderson Avenue have injured 26 people, and traffic safety ranks 14 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 54 reports. Across every category, 247 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 41 reports, and elevator with 16. In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on Henderson Avenue. About 149 reports per 100 homes sit on Henderson Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Henderson Avenue carries 22 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Henderson Avenue, 35 violations of it. Doors accounts for 24 more, and structure for 21. City housing records put 166 homes in 110 residential buildings on Henderson Avenue, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Henderson Avenue ranks 82 on parking and 13 on housing. Henderson Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 20 and traffic safety at 14. Against every street in the city, Henderson Avenue ranks 31 on food nearby and 15 on transit. Henderson Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 166 on Henderson 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.
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Henderson Avenue runs through West New Brighton, St. George and Port Richmond, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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