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

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does North Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 60, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts North Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (81) and food nearby (55). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

The HPD file on North Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 37 homes in 26 residential buildings on North Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, reported crashes on North Avenue have injured no one.

Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 70, with cleanliness at 54. A 54 on cleanliness places North Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. Traffic safety ranks 67 on the same scale, with quietness at 64. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 42 and transit at 8. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on North Avenue, at 55. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band North Avenue is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on North Avenue is infrastructure, at 81.

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

North Avenue 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).

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