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

Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Paulding Avenue in Staten Island rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.

Calm 52, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Paulding Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on street crime (85) and tree cover (56). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

More 311 reports on Paulding Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 10 of them. Across every category, 32 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Paulding Avenue span 21 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 48 reports for every 100 homes on Paulding Avenue.

The HPD file on Paulding Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 38 residential buildings on Paulding Avenue hold the 66 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 68 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 25. A 25 on parking places Paulding Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 39 and traffic safety at 29. Transit ranks 12 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 56. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Paulding Avenue is scored inside.

Housing is where Paulding Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 84.

Of the 66 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.

Nearest streets in Staten Island

Paulding Avenue runs through New Springville, 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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