Hillcrest Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Hillcrest Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 71, 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 Hillcrest Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (96) and transit (53). Housing (5) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 15 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 73 homes on file, that is about 73 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 11 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 28 residential buildings on Hillcrest Avenue holding 73 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Hillcrest Avenue have injured no one.
Among smaller avenues, Hillcrest Avenue ranks 83 on traffic safety and 63 on parking. A 63 on parking places Hillcrest Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 73 and cleanliness at 71. Tree cover ranks 22 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Hillcrest Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Hillcrest Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 96.
49% of the 73 homes recorded on Hillcrest Avenue are rent-stabilized, 36 homes in all.
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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Hillcrest Avenue runs through Great Kills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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