Lester Street, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Lester Street in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Lester Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and food nearby (77). Tree cover (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 7 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Lester Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 22 homes in 21 residential buildings on Lester Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among quiet residential streets, Lester Street ranks 72 on parking and 7 on traffic safety. Lester Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Housing ranks 36 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 22. Transit ranks 43 and tree cover 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Lester Street, at 77. Lester Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
Of the 22 homes on file, none 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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Lester Street runs through Westerleigh, 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).