Ontario Avenue, Staten Island: Grade D · 311 & City Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does Ontario Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Ontario Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (69) and food nearby (39). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Ontario Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 31 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Across every category, 90 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 18 reports. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ontario Avenue. About 130 reports per 100 homes sit on Ontario Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Ontario Avenue. City housing records put 69 homes in 56 residential buildings on Ontario Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 58 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 21. Ontario Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. The card also puts parking at 42 and infrastructure at 34 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 38 and tree cover 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Ontario Avenue, at 39. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Ontario Avenue is cleanliness, at 69.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 69 on Ontario 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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Ontario Avenue runs through Westerleigh, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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