Jefferson Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Jefferson Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Jefferson Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and tree cover (77). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Jefferson Avenue, with 29 reports. Across every category, 120 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Water system is the next most-filed at 20 reports, then street condition at 17. The file runs across 37 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 284 homes on file, that is about 42 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Jefferson Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 284 homes in 182 residential buildings on Jefferson Avenue, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Jefferson Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 83 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 39. That 39 on traffic safety puts Jefferson Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 71 and quietness at 45 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, Jefferson Avenue ranks 51 on transit and 39 on food nearby. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Jefferson Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Jefferson Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 97.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 284 on Jefferson 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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Jefferson Avenue runs through New Dorp and Grasmere, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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