Lafayette Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Lafayette Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 25, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Lafayette Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (94) and tree cover (52). Transit (15) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Noise is the most-filed complaint on Lafayette Avenue, with 10 reports. Across every category, 48 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name noise. Derelict vehicles is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. Reports on Lafayette Avenue span 28 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 55 reports for every 100 homes on Lafayette Avenue.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Lafayette Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 59 residential buildings and 87 homes on Lafayette Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Lafayette Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 81 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 28. A 28 on traffic safety places Lafayette Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 67 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 44. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 15. Lafayette Avenue ranks 52 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Lafayette Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Lafayette Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 94.
None of the 87 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.
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Lafayette Avenue runs through St. George and 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).