Kelvin Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Kelvin Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Kelvin Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (96) and transit (82). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Kelvin Avenue, with 15 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 62 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Kelvin Avenue carries roughly 51 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Kelvin Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 122 homes in 69 residential buildings on Kelvin Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among smaller avenues, Kelvin Avenue ranks 72 on quietness and 15 on housing. Kelvin Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Parking ranks 60 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 42. Tree cover ranks 53 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Kelvin Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Kelvin Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 86.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 122 on Kelvin 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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Kelvin Avenue runs through Oakwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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