Kell Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Kell Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Kell Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (93) and tree cover (73). Transit (36) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Kell Avenue, with 34 reports. The whole 311 file on Kell Avenue holds 46 reports, and illegal parking is 74% of it. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 13 reports. Reports on Kell Avenue span 23 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Kell Avenue carries roughly 28 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Kell Avenue. The housing file lists 132 residential buildings on Kell Avenue holding 162 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Kell Avenue ranks 91 on infrastructure and 39 on parking. Kell Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 90 and housing at 51. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 36. Kell Avenue ranks 73 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
Of the 162 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.
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Kell Avenue runs through Westerleigh and Todt Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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