Kissel Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Kissel Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Kissel Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and tree cover (64). Transit (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Missed collection leads the 311 file on Kissel Avenue, with 25 reports. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 115 homes in 96 residential buildings on Kissel Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Kissel Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 92, with housing at 20. That 20 on housing puts Kissel Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 83 and infrastructure at 52 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 23 and transit 4, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 64. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Kissel Avenue is traffic safety, at 92.
Of the 115 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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Kissel Avenue runs through West New Brighton, 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).