Lake Avenue, Staten Island: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 24 out of 100. How does Lake Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 24 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Lake Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (54) and tree cover (54). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Lake Avenue, with 40 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on Lake Avenue holds 233 reports, and illegal parking is 17% of it. Residential noise follows with 37 reports, and blocked driveway with 22. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lake Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Lake Avenue carries roughly 111 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Lake Avenue carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Lake Avenue is pests, at 13 violations. The housing file lists 141 residential buildings on Lake Avenue holding 210 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 21, with housing at 10. That 10 on housing puts Lake Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 20 on the same scale, with quietness at 14. Against every street in the city, Lake Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby and 22 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 54. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Lake Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lake Avenue is infrastructure, at 23.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 210 on Lake 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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Lake Avenue runs through Mariner's Harbor, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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