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

Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does Layton Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.

Calm 34, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts Layton Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (80) and transit (33). Housing (0) is the weak spot.

On the record

Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on Layton Avenue, with 16 reports. The whole 311 file on Layton Avenue holds 157 reports, and blocked driveway is 10% of it. Residential noise follows with 15 reports. The file runs across 24 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Layton Avenue carries roughly 242 reports per 100 of them.

Layton Avenue carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. HPD's most-cited category on Layton Avenue is pests, at 14 violations. Behind it the file holds doors, at 10 violations. City housing records put 65 homes in 31 residential buildings on Layton Avenue, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Layton Avenue holds about 2.1 homes.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Layton Avenue have injured no one.

Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 68 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 14. That 14 on parking puts Layton Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 22 and cleanliness at 17 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 29 and food nearby 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 33. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.

None of the 65 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

Layton Avenue runs through St. George, 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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