Nelson Avenue, Staten Island: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Nelson Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 53, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Nelson Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (68). Traffic safety (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Damaged tree leads the 311 file on Nelson Avenue, with 15 reports. The whole 311 file on Nelson Avenue holds 41 reports, and damaged tree is 37% of it. Street condition is the next most-filed at 13 reports, then sewer at 11. Reports on Nelson Avenue span 34 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 112 homes on file, that is about 37 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Nelson Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 86 residential buildings on Nelson Avenue hold the 112 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on Nelson Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 91 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 79. A 79 on quietness places Nelson Avenue in the strongest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 88 and housing at 81. The citywide frame puts transit at 49 and food nearby at 48. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Nelson Avenue, at 68. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Nelson Avenue is cleanliness, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 112 on Nelson Avenue.
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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Nelson Avenue runs through Great Kills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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