Knesel Street, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data

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

Livability score

Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.

Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Knesel Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (87) and food nearby (39). Street crime (12) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 10 distinct 311 categories in all.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Knesel Street. City housing records put 35 homes in 20 residential buildings on Knesel Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Knesel Street since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 69 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 21. A 21 on housing places Knesel Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 58 and parking at 39 among quiet residential streets. Tree cover ranks 38 and transit 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Knesel Street, at 39. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

Quietness is where Knesel Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 87.

None of the 35 homes on file 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

Knesel Street runs through Arden Heights, 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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