Motley Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311 & City Data

Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Motley Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.

Calm 59, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 20, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Motley Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (92) and tree cover (37). Food nearby (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

In all, 5 distinct 311 categories are represented on Motley Avenue.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Motley Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 24 residential buildings on Motley Avenue hold the 26 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 83 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 13. Motley Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts traffic safety at 60 and housing at 37 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 17 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 37. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Motley Avenue is scored inside.

Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.

Of the 26 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Motley Avenue runs through Todt Hill, 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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