Major Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Major Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Major Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (85) and tree cover (57). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
In all, 19 distinct 311 categories are represented on Major Avenue.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Major Avenue. 54 residential buildings on Major Avenue hold the 67 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on Major Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Major Avenue ranks 78 on quietness and 58 on infrastructure. Major Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on infrastructure. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 69 and parking at 59. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Major Avenue, at 57. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Major Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where Major Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 85.
None of the 67 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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Major Avenue runs through Grasmere, 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).