Otis Avenue, Staten Island: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does Otis Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Otis Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and tree cover (77). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Plumbing is the most-filed complaint on Otis Avenue, with 68 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 73 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 93% of them name plumbing. Heat and hot water follows with 34 reports, and electric with 23. The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. About 52 reports per 100 homes sit on Otis Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Otis Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bathroom is what HPD writes up most on Otis Avenue, 17 violations of it. Heat and hot water accounts for 12 more, and structure for 11. The housing file lists 97 residential buildings on Otis Avenue holding 141 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Otis Avenue ranks 37 on traffic safety and 14 on infrastructure. A 14 on infrastructure places Otis Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 28 and housing at 26. The citywide frame puts transit at 60 and food nearby at 53. Otis Avenue ranks 77 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
Of the 141 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Otis Avenue runs through New Dorp, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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