Highland Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Highland Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Highland Avenue in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and food nearby (27). Housing (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Missed collection is the most-filed complaint on Highland Avenue, with 13 reports. Across every category, 48 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name missed collection. The file runs across 20 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 70 homes on file, that is about 69 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 70 homes in 45 residential buildings on Highland Avenue, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Highland Avenue ranks 60 on infrastructure and 21 on quietness. Highland Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. The card also puts traffic safety at 43 and parking at 39 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Highland Avenue ranks 19 on transit and 16 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Highland Avenue, at 27. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Highland Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Highland Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 70.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 70 on Highland 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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Highland Avenue runs through West New Brighton, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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