Joseph Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data

Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Joseph Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.

Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 24, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Joseph Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (83) and tree cover (70). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Joseph Avenue, with 18 reports. Behind it sits residential noise, with 16 reports. Reports on Joseph Avenue span 12 distinct 311 categories.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Joseph Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 58 residential buildings and 61 homes on Joseph Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 66 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 20. Joseph Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 54 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 28. Transit ranks 12 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Joseph Avenue ranks 70 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.

Of the 61 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

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

Joseph Avenue runs through Todt Hill, 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).

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