Howard Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Howard Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against busy avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Howard Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and tree cover (57). Food nearby (23) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Howard Avenue, with 57 reports. Across every category, 141 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to street condition (34 reports) and illegal parking (19). The file runs across 43 distinct 311 categories in all. About 25 reports per 100 homes sit on Howard Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on Howard Avenue carries 16 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. 62 residential buildings on Howard Avenue hold the 575 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 9.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records 9 people injured in crashes on Howard Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Howard Avenue ranks 97 on cleanliness and 54 on infrastructure. That 54 on infrastructure puts Howard Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 74 on the same scale, with quietness at 64. The citywide frame puts transit at 30 and food nearby at 23. Howard Avenue ranks 57 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Howard Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Howard Avenue is parking, at 99.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 575 on Howard 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.
Nearest streets in Staten Island
- Foote Avenue, Staten Island
- Cayuga Avenue, Staten Island
- Oswego Street, Staten Island
- Sunnyside Ter, Staten Island
- Tioga Street, Staten Island
- Alpine Avenue, Staten Island
Howard Avenue runs through West New Brighton, 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).