Kensington Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Kensington Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Kensington Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and tree cover (65). Street crime (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 19 distinct 311 categories are represented on Kensington Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Kensington Avenue. The housing file lists 88 residential buildings on Kensington Avenue holding 118 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 91, with quietness at 24. That 24 on quietness puts Kensington Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 82 and cleanliness at 28. The citywide frame puts transit at 41 and food nearby at 31. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 65. Kensington Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Housing is where Kensington Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 95.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 118 on Kensington 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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Kensington Avenue runs through Grasmere, 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).