Laurel Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data

Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Laurel Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.

Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Laurel Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (60) and tree cover (39). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.

On the record

The file runs across 25 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 75 homes on file, that is about 67 reports per 100 homes.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Laurel Avenue. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 11 violations on file. 51 residential buildings on Laurel Avenue hold the 75 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Among smaller avenues, Laurel Avenue ranks 49 on infrastructure and 19 on housing. That 19 on housing puts Laurel Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 37 and quietness at 22. Against every street in the city, Laurel Avenue ranks 35 on food nearby and 23 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Laurel Avenue, at 39. Laurel Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 60.

None of the 75 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

Laurel Avenue runs through Tompkinsville, 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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