N Railroad Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data

Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does N Railroad Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.

Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.

That puts N Railroad Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (55) and tree cover (87). Traffic safety (11) is the weak spot.

On the record

The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for North Railroad Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on North Railroad Avenue have injured 33 people, and traffic safety ranks 11 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 38 reports. The whole 311 file on North Railroad Avenue holds 204 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (14 reports) and abandoned vehicle (11). Reports on North Railroad Avenue span 48 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 59 reports for every 100 homes on North Railroad Avenue.

Inspectors have written 28 Class C violations on North Railroad Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on North Railroad Avenue is paint and lead, at 22 violations. Electrical follows at 17 violations, then doors at 14. The housing file lists 234 residential buildings on North Railroad Avenue holding 347 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them.

Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 52 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 15. That 15 on housing puts North Railroad Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 48 and cleanliness at 38. Transit ranks 78 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Infrastructure is where North Railroad Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 54.

Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 347 homes on file, 2 homes in all.

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

N Railroad Avenue runs through Grasmere, New Dorp and Oakwood, 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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