Ocean Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Ocean Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Ocean Avenue in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and transit (28). Traffic safety (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 17 distinct 311 categories in all. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on Ocean Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Ocean Avenue. PLUTO counts 72 residential buildings and 101 homes on Ocean Avenue, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Ocean Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Ocean Avenue ranks 48 on parking and 37 on quietness. A 37 on quietness places Ocean Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 48 and infrastructure at 46 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 27 and tree cover 20, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Ocean Avenue, at 28. Ocean Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where Ocean Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 87.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 101 on Ocean 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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Ocean Avenue runs through Grasmere, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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