Houston Street, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Houston Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Houston Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (89) and food nearby (74). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Houston Street name park noise than any other category, 10 of them, and parking ranks 9 among quiet residential streets. In all, 11 distinct 311 categories are represented on Houston Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Houston Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 23 residential buildings and 28 homes on Houston Street, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Houston Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 69, with quietness at 11. That 11 on quietness puts Houston Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 52 and cleanliness at 41. Tree cover ranks 48 and transit 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Houston Street, at 74. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Houston Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Houston Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 89.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 28 on Houston Street.
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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Houston Street runs through Westerleigh, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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